Dental surgery and mechanism : a popular treatise on the preservation, management, and surgical treatment of the teeth and gums : with the most modern and improved modes of supplying the loss of teeth / by Edward Lukyn.

  • Lukyn, Edward
Date:
1864
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Credit: Dental surgery and mechanism : a popular treatise on the preservation, management, and surgical treatment of the teeth and gums : with the most modern and improved modes of supplying the loss of teeth / by Edward Lukyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eight years of age, when the permanent large teeth at the back make their appear- ance, in one case out of eight, one or more of the teeth will be fonnd to be diseased. The same observation as to early disease is applicable to the denies sapient ice9 or wisdom teeth of the adult, with this dif- ference, that children's teeth, which may be almost termed cartilaginous in their internal structure, are highly susceptible, and rapidly decay; whereas, the adult's teeth being more ossified, disease pro- ceeds with less rapidity. Toothache accompanied by a carious opening forms one species of disease, and inflammation without such opening (though of rare occurrence) another. The socket in which the fringe of the tooth is lodged is lined with a membrane called the periosteum, which, when in a state of inflammation, becomes exceedingly sensi- tive, and thus forms a third species of toothache. There is also a pain called
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