Our teeth, how built up, how destroyed, how preserved / described and illustrated by R. Denison Pedley, and Frank Harrison.
- Pedley, Richard Denison.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Our teeth, how built up, how destroyed, how preserved / described and illustrated by R. Denison Pedley, and Frank Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![no power of repair. Every carious permanent tooth is on its way to complete destruction, never to be replaced through life. For these reasons it may be said that in the carious tem- porary teeth we ha\ e the dental condition of the child, and CHKRT SHOWING THE WANT OF MASTICATING POWER IN 80 'V OF CHILDREN AT IZ YEAR5. 1 UPPER JAW. LINE OF ^ TEETH ] ARTICULOTIONf % PRE iNCisoRsi ^noL^Rs MOLARS AGE yVT WHICH THE TEETH EKurr LOWER J^W. TEETH 1 DECAYED, i a: OR LOST Fig. 26 in the carious permanent teeth we have the dental condition of the young adult. Fig. 26 well illustrates the loss of masticating power at this early adult age. Since the publication of the Collective Investigation Re- ports, and mainly as a result of them, dental surgeons have been appointed to nearly all the Poor Law schools of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506474_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
