The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practioners ... to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc. etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physcians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott.

Scott, Joseph (Dentist)

Date:: 1831

Credit: The art of preventing the loss of the teeth : with instructions calculated to enable medical practioners ... to adopt the author's practice of treating the diseases of the teeth and gums including the stopping of decayed teeth, and curing of tooth-ache, by the use of the anodyne cement, etc. etc. : also, stating the improvements in fixing artificial teeth, and a description of the siliceous pearl teeth and teeth-renovator : with testimonials from their Majesties' physcians and surgeons / by Joseph Scott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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the caries or cavities of teeth, it neither possesses nor requires a degree of heat that can in the slightest way injure, much less destroy, the vitality of the bony fibres of the tooth (as is the case with the fusible metal), not causing any pain whatever to the patient, or be otherwise attended with those evils which are concomitant to the insertion of any of the other stopping substances before adverted to. It also possesses the quality of completely filling the cavity, and insinuating itself into the most minute irregularities to be found there, and of almost in- stantaneously acquiring a consistency which renders it artificially sound and competent to all the purposes of mastication, without the shadow of possibility of any of the dangerous consequences attending oxidation or corrosion resulting from it. In addition to which, it possesses the merit of being removeable at pleasure after years of servitude at a moment’s warning, without pain. I did not introduce my discovery into my public prac- tice, until after I had tried its efficacy first upon one of my own teeth, and subsequently on some of those of my intimate acquaintances. ‘The results of which were quite satisfactory. The following is a statement of my own case. The last molare or grinding tooth of my mouth having been affected by caries, and the crown of the tooth considera- bly decayed with its enamel broken in the center of the irregularities of the grinding surfaces, early in 182], without the least perception of pain, I filled the cavity with

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