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Treatment and Prevention of Decay of the Teeth
Treatment and Prevention of Decay of the Teeth Author:Robert Arthur General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Subjects: Medical / Dentistry / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial ... more »access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. THE FIRST PERMANENT MOLARS. IN regard to the treatment of decay of the teeth, it is most important, as I have already urged, that it should be commenced as soon as possible after the attack occurs. This is so for obvious reasons, even if the operation of filling is relied upon; but if it is proposed to take advantage of the very greatly preferable means of arresting decay by its removal in the manner I have described, it is equally obvious that it is necessary that it should be treated in the incipient stage of the attack. The management of the permanent teeth should, therefore, commence as soon as the process of shedding begins to take place, and should be rigidly followed up as the permanent teeth make their appearance. Having explained, in a general way, the nature of decay, and the means to be employed for its arrest, I now proceed to describe, in detail, the treatment, or management, of the teeth as I conduct it in every case of which I have entire control. Somewhat before, or about the time, the central incisors are shed, four new teeth make their appearlarger than those of the same class of the temporary set; they are, indeed, larger than any of the other teeth. These teeth are known as the first permanent molars. It is a prevailing impression that the four teeth referred to, coming as they do at such an early age, about the seventh year, belong to the first set and will be shed with them. They are, consequently, generally neglected, and before it is supposed necessary to consult a dentist about the teeth of a ...« less