A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell.

  • Eskell, Frederick A.
Date:
1862
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Credit: A new system of treating and fixing artificial teeth : the art to prevent the loss of the teeth with instructions calculated to enable heads of families to adopt the author's practice of treating and preserving the teeth ... / by Frederick A. Eskell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLASSES OF TEETH.; It may not be uninteresting in describing the teeth, to state that the first set of teeth are divided into three classes—incisores, cuspidati, and molares; they are called shedding teeth, from their falling between the seventh and fourteenth year, at which period they give place to the permanent or adult teeth; of the adult teeth there is a fourth class, the biscuspides, so called from their double points ; and also a fifth, the dentes sapientige, or wisdom teeth. The regular complement of permanent teeth is thirty-two, although they sometimes exceed that number, and at others come short of it. While the shedding teeth appear in their places, and are full grown, their successors, the permanent teeth, are also in their separate cells ready to succeed them. The order and number of the shedding teeth are as follows :— 4 Incisores, incisors, fore teeth, or butter teeth. 2 Cuspidati, canine teeth, or eye teeth. 4 Molares, or grinders.
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