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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    [ «S. ] The roots of the Teeth are often expofed without any fenfation of pain, efpecially when the gums have receded flowly, and when the fucceffive por¬ tions of the roots fo expofed have been gradually withered and dried, and their nerves thereby deprived of their accuf- tomed fenfibility. But even then the evil is not the lefs formidable, becaufe the Teeth are expofed to caries, to catch and retain portions of food in their interlaces, to give a flanking breath, to be loofened, and even to be pufhed entirely out of their lockets on every flight occafion. A Tooth-ach ariilng from this caufe is eafily diflinguiflied by looking into the mouth, and by finding that the patient is, or lately has been, troubled with fome of the above named difor- ders. If the expofed roots are become E carious.