What can a mother do to preserve her children's teeth?

  • Quinby, Henry C.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: What can a mother do to preserve her children's teeth?. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Toronto, Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harry A Abbott Dentistry Library, University of Toronto.

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    molars having been extracted at twelve. The wisdom teeth are in position, the gaps closed up, and although the young lady from whose mouth the casts were taken has not inherited good teeth, they have been preserved from anything like disfiguring decay by constant care at home. Eigurc 17. One more illustration (Fig. 17) of this subject is a case where a boy of tw^elve, getting toothache at school, had the six-year molars taken out on one side of the mouth, and as they were not so bad on the (jther side the dentist filled them. The result is that, on the one side, where the teeth were extracted, there is literally no decay, except in tlie incisors, where it had probably commenced before the extractions; while, on the other side, where the teeth w'ere retained, evei'v tooth is filled on tlie ap])r()xim<iting
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