The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth . d injury to themselves,and of annoyance to others from the offen-sive smell which it gives to the breath. Tosuch we would remark, that the operationof scaling is the most simple and innocentimaginable, and unaccompanied by pain;being in fact but the removal by appropriateinstruments of an extraneous substance,which the tooth-brush is inadequate to bringaway. But of this we shall speak morepresently. The third kind of tartar appears originallyas a discoloured arch around the fronts ofthe teeth, close t
The family dentist : including the surgical, medical, and mechanical treatment of the teeth . d injury to themselves,and of annoyance to others from the offen-sive smell which it gives to the breath. Tosuch we would remark, that the operationof scaling is the most simple and innocentimaginable, and unaccompanied by pain;being in fact but the removal by appropriateinstruments of an extraneous substance,which the tooth-brush is inadequate to bringaway. But of this we shall speak morepresently. The third kind of tartar appears originallyas a discoloured arch around the fronts ofthe teeth, close to the edges of the gum. Itshould be removed at once, and the enamelunder it well polished, to prevent its re-deposite: otherwise it will repeat its attackon the enamel, and completely denude theteeth, the crystalline appearance of the en-amel being destroyed, after which the sub- SALIVARY CALCULUS OR TARTAR. 107 jacent osseous substance will suffer, andsoon become carious. The following engraving represents theloss of the four central teeth of the lowerjaw from the accumulation of The next cut represents the teeth of thelower jaw completely imbedded in tartar.
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