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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    [ ] The few inftances in which they fucceed, (urdy are not fufficient to counterbalance the hazard ; and were thefe people properly verfed in the den- tnt s art, tney would certainly prefer the healing of the focket, and the ufe of a well-conftruded artificial Tooth, or a human 1 poth with the root filed orr, and formed to fit the void ipace exactly ; for this will occafion none of the evils that attend the former prac¬ tice, which is not only precarious, in¬ effectual, and dangerous in general, but alio immoderately expenfive; for it is not to be fuppofed, that any young perfon will fell a handfome found Tooth, to be torn out of his head, without be¬ ing extremely well paid for his lofs and pain. In many inftances where this trans¬ planting of Teeth has been thought to havp fucceeded, I arp well convinced, that