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. 143 ARTIFICIAL CROWN- AND BRIDGE-WORK. dentistry, though until quite recently the system has not obtainedoeneral recognition nor been extensively practiced. Dental literature presents bridging operations as described byJ. B. Gariot in 1805, C. F. Delabarre in 1820, Dr. S. S. Fitch in1829, and Dr. W. H. Dwindle in 1856. Figs. 291 and 292are copies of illustrations in Dr. Fitchs work, published inIsTew York in 1829, and Fig. 293 one from a translation of work in 1843. In 1871 the bridging process or bridgeprinciple was again brought to notice by a patent applied for inEngland by Dr. B. J. Bing, of Paris, for an improved means ofsupporting and securing a bridge by aijchoring with cement or Fig 291.
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