A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work . Originally, the application and mechanical construction of such dentures was of a most primitive character; and as the attachments were simply ligatures or clasps of gold, the teeth were more ornamental than Fig. 290. useful. Figs. 288, 289, and 290 illustrate the antique methods.^ Fis;. 288 is an illustration of a specimen of ancient Phoenician dentistry. Fig. 289 is that of one in the Etruscan age, dating about five hundred years Fig. 290 gives a view of the same denture inverted. Dentures constructed on the bridging plan by va
A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work . Originally, the application and mechanical construction of such dentures was of a most primitive character; and as the attachments were simply ligatures or clasps of gold, the teeth were more ornamental than Fig. 290. useful. Figs. 288, 289, and 290 illustrate the antique methods.^ Fis;. 288 is an illustration of a specimen of ancient Phoenician dentistry. Fig. 289 is that of one in the Etruscan age, dating about five hundred years Fig. 290 gives a view of the same denture inverted. Dentures constructed on the bridging plan by various methodshave been occasionally employed from the earliest days of modern ^See Indeperident Practitioner, vols, vi and vii, Evidences of Prehistoric Den-tistry, by J. G. Van Martcr, , Rome, Italy. Fhj:s. 288, 289, 290 are copiesof the illustrations of the specimens, the first of which is represented as beingin the museum of the Louvre, Paris, France, and the second in the Corneto Museum, Corneto, Italv. 147
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