. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . TAETAB ON FOUR TKKTH. TARTAR REMOVED. Fig. 123 represents six teeth, four of which are affected by 124 represents the same teeth with the tartar removed. Thereis no known means of causing the parts to become again healthy. Allthat can be done is to arrest the disease. Teeth that are perfectlysound often fall out, the tartar destroying the gum and alveolar pro-cess, leaving nothing to hold
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . TAETAB ON FOUR TKKTH. TARTAR REMOVED. Fig. 123 represents six teeth, four of which are affected by 124 represents the same teeth with the tartar removed. Thereis no known means of causing the parts to become again healthy. Allthat can be done is to arrest the disease. Teeth that are perfectlysound often fall out, the tartar destroying the gum and alveolar pro-cess, leaving nothing to hold them in place. Mr. Burdell gives thefollowing representationof a portion of the teethand gums in a healthycondition, and one withtartar on it; while theothers show the jaw andgum to be entirely off thefront part of the first cause of thisdefect might have beentartar, and afterward byusing a stiff* brush, withimproper tooth-powder,that was accomplishedwhich the tartar had leftundone Fig. BOOTS HXPOSKD FROM VARIOUS OAUSM. 536 Of the Teeth, and theie Diseases. Caries. This is the most common form of dental disease. Its causes are asnumerous as the sources of ill health generally. Prevention and Cure.—I recommend, in strong terms, that all whrcan avail themselves of the services of a skillful, honest dentist—onewho not only knows what to do, but who will do it. There is muchroom for dishonesty in the dental art, much temptation to are probably a greater proportion of ignorant pretenders in thisthan any other department of medical science. But dentistry, rightlypracticed, is one of the most useful of all the arts. Properly cleansing,excavating, and plugging the tooth is the great remedy for caries, forwhich the dentist must of course be consulted. Tooth-powders and Washes.—Villainous quacks have invented ar;reat variety of powders and washes wherewith to cheat people. Mostcf these applications serve to whiten the teeth through the effect of anacid
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