. Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc., for sale . om each other, seems almost infinite. A visit to a first-classporcelain-tooth manufacturers rooms will convince any one that incongruity or want ofexpression in a set of teeth is the fault of him who selects and applies rather than ofhim who designs and makes dental-porcelain. 3 34 S. S. WHITES It will be perceived that the foregoing illustrations of the aesthetic principles of thedento-ceramic art are taken from one class of teeth, those for vulcanite or metallo-plasticwork. We have done so because the art has here had


. Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc., for sale . om each other, seems almost infinite. A visit to a first-classporcelain-tooth manufacturers rooms will convince any one that incongruity or want ofexpression in a set of teeth is the fault of him who selects and applies rather than ofhim who designs and makes dental-porcelain. 3 34 S. S. WHITES It will be perceived that the foregoing illustrations of the aesthetic principles of thedento-ceramic art are taken from one class of teeth, those for vulcanite or metallo-plasticwork. We have done so because the art has here had its fullest recent development, inconsequence of the great demand for this form of block. But dental aesthetics is quiteindependent of the material of the plate so long as that which is visible in the mouthis porcelain; and dentures which show any substitute for the gum other than this, how-ever useful they may be, cannot rank as specimens of highest art until some material forthe plate shall be discovered possessing higher claims to beauty than any yet known. Fig. 121 122


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