False Teeth

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 106, 28 February 1891, Page 4

False Teeth

<• Yery few people, an American contemporary remarks, realise bow much , the dentist has done for maukiud. i To mention one thing OQly, the perfection "to which the uianutacture oi artificial teeth has been carried has practically •abolished old age — that is, old age in - the' sense I used to know it. You see none of the helpless, mumbling) old men and women than you formerly •did. Tlvis is not because the people •<lo not attain the age their parents . 'and' grandparents ' reached, but !be<cauße the dentist has prevented some <of the most unpleasant consequences 'dt advancing .y ear ** eu °* no - longer look'w feel old -because they -are not deprived of nourishing food at Vth'eT tiiiie when they need it .most. - -Estimates have been made showing 'mat* the"' avefrfge length of life has ~ b'etui increased from tuiir to six years "-by 'the use of false teeth. ' * ''-.At a Teeeat' meeting of laryngoloigistsiu Xondoa, Dr 3Leunox Browne T#lated the case of a middle-aged jwoman who was sent to him fiom ,the , .-provinces for the purpose of deciding „ whether lier malady was laiyugeal cancer or phthisis. Though a tail, "large- boned "Woman," she only weighed a little over 901b., and was- obviously very 'much- • eiuaciat'ed. ' He peeped -7^o»n her larynx, and saw what he " vrecbguiaed to be a plate with " "^l^i'ficial teeth firmly 'impacted -in the - lar>nx,-where-it had-beeu-lor-the last ,22 m nths unknown to the patient. remeuibeied haviug been awakened in the middle of the night by a violent fit of vomiting, and wiien the c .teeth were inquired- after •it was .assumed that they had been thrown .away by the dejections From that ■ddy- forth,- however, she buffered from 'difficulty in breathing, pain in swali ilowing, etc., associated with progressive emaciation. With some difficulty .the plate was removed 'and shown to the admiring friends., and the patient rapidly recovered health and strength. -— Oamaru Mail.