A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums ... with cases and experiments / By Thomas Berdmore.

  • Thomas Berdmore
Date:
1768
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Credit: A treatise on the disorders and deformities of the teeth and gums ... with cases and experiments / By Thomas Berdmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *4 ] CHAP. VIII. Of Loofenefs of the Teeth. Change of Pofition, Protrufion, total Luxa- . * tion, and the Tooth-ach arifing from thefe Caufes. Loofenefs of the Teeth is occa- X JL fioned by recefs of the gums, or tartarous concretions, or violence, or by the withering and decay of the con¬ necting membranes and veffels, as hap¬ pens in certain diforders, and in old age. It is eafily difcovered by the touch 5 and the cure is more or lefs dif¬ ficult according to the degree of motion it admits of, and according to the na¬ ture of the caules which produce it. When it is owing to a iofs of gums, O C“ J as in fcorbutic, venereal, or putrid dif¬