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Dentures

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Prosthodontics

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Images about Dentures

10 images from works
  • A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
  • A short dentist (standing on a stool) extracting a tooth from an extremely tall lady who in her agony kicks over his work table. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1821, after A.E.
  • Sallot (?) holding up a tooth and leaning on a grossly oversized set of dentures through which a fleur-de-lis is growing, in the background is a oversized skull wearing a helmet. Coloured wood engraving (?) by Marchandeux after A. Gill, 1867.
  • Three vignettes relating to Georges Fattet the inventor of false teeth. Lithograph.
  • An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, a glass eye and wigs. Coloured lithograph by L. Boilly, 1825.
  • N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • A dentist demonstrating the adaptability of false teeth to an apprehensive patient by taking out his own. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1877.
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Works from the collections

26 works

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    Mechanical dentistry : a practical treatise on the construction of the various kinds of artificial dentures ; comprising also useful formulae, tables, and receipts for gold plate, clasps, solders, etc., etc., etc. / by Charles Hunter.

    Hunter, Charles. | Date: 1882
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    N. Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own and a woman's false teeth to a prospective male patient with disordered teeth. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.

    Thomas Rowlandson | Date: Feb.y 26 1811 | Reference: 16634i
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    The practical manual of dental casting : being the recorded experiences of many able and eminent men in the dental profession.

    | Date: 1913
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    Oddments in dental history. A folding upper denture / Malvin E. Ring.

    Ring, Malvin E. | Date: 1985
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    An Essay on artificial teeth, obtusators, & palates : with the principles for their construction and application, illustrated by twenty-six cases and twenty-one plates / by Leonard Koecker.

    Leonard Koecker | Date: 1835
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Related topics

Dentists
Dentistry
Costume
Dentist and patient

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