Notes on dental porcelain : a practical treatise especially devoted to the interests of the beginner / by V. Walter Gilbert.

  • Gilbert, V. Walter
Date:
1905
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    PORCELAIN—ITS PLACE IN DENTISTRY A quick and an effective way of ascertaining the relation and value of any article to a given subject is to imagine the conditions which would exist if that article was no longer obtainable. Imagine the condition of dentistry, were all the artificial teeth, porcelain bodies, gum enamels, etc., destroyed and no longer obtainable. Think it over and you will be pretty thoroughly convinced that no value can be placed upon the opinion of those who say ''Porcelain has no place in dentistry. Ever since artistic dental prosthesis became a possibility, porcelain has held an important place in the profession; in fact, dental prosthesis is today impossible if we do not make use of porcelain. No one will deny the fact that porcelain is the best mate- rial with which to construct artificial teeth. By reason of their physical resemblance to the natu- ral teeth, and their other essential (lualifications of strength, resistance to oral secretions, etc., porcelain teetli are used in constructing the artificial dentures of civilized humanity. If the '' ready-made'' artificial porcelain tooth was the only thing made possiI)le by this material, the ])rofession would have much for which to be grateful, but with porcelain other dental desiderata are made ))Ossible. !)
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