The history and treatment of the diseases of the teeth, the gums, and the alveolar processes, with the operations which they respectively require. To which are added, observations on other diseases of the mouth, and on the mode of fixing artificial teeth / By Joseph Fox.
- Fox, Joseph, 1776-1816.
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history and treatment of the diseases of the teeth, the gums, and the alveolar processes, with the operations which they respectively require. To which are added, observations on other diseases of the mouth, and on the mode of fixing artificial teeth / By Joseph Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![it is by no means uncommon for a person, in a very short space of time, to discover cavities in several teeth which had been supposed perfectly sound. In the mastication of hard sub- stances, pieces of the enamel are broken off, on account of the texture of the bony part being destroyed by the caries, which had previously gone on for some time internally. There is no one part of a tooth more particularly liable to become diseased than another. In some the caries appears in the irregularities of . the grinding surfaces of the molares, and resembles a crack filled with a black substance, which at length breaks into a cavity in the centre of the tooth; in others it com- mences in the side of the tooth next the cheek; and sometimes at the neck of the tooth, the decay extending into the body of the tooth underneath the enamel. The decay very often commences on those sides of the teeth which are placed in apposition to each other; this is the worst possible situation for the disease, because it often makes consi- derable progress without being discovered, and is much less con- veniently placed for the performance of any operation to arrest its progress. rf}P • : _ - ■■]; ' In the incisors, the caries most commonly begins at the sides,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22015267_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
