On the loss of teeth; and on the best means of restoring them / by Thomas Howard.

  • Howard, Thomas (Dentist)
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the loss of teeth; and on the best means of restoring them / by Thomas Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    below it: the glottis, velum-palati, naves, roof of the mouth, gums, teeth, lips, and tongue, above or outside of the larynx. No voice can be perfect, with either of these organs imperfect or in an abnormal condition. And it is well for the dentist, when he discovers that he cannot produce an agreeable voice in setting teeth for a patient, whom he had not known previously to his loss of them, to consider whether any defect complained of depended upon a mal-arrangement of his own work, or whether nature, or the health and habits of the patient, were at fault. The dentist ought to be sufficiently familiar with all the organs of speech and their peculiar functions, to judge which one, or more, is or are not properly per- forming their respective functions; whether difficulties complained of, depend upon a loss of any or all of the teeth, their mal-arrange- ment or disease, the imperfect development of the alveolar processes, and what sounds are most affected by the loss of either or all of the teeth. As for instance, a loss of the posterior \
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