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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 797, 3 December 1853, Page 3

Extraordinary Invention. —A patenthas just been taken out by Mr. Ephraim Mosely, of 61, Grosvenorstreet, for the application of chemically purified white Indian-rubber in the construction of artifical teeth, gums, and palates. A long acknowledged desideratum, by many eminent practical dentists fruitlessly sought for, is now at length happily found, and »by the patentee’s process, most ingeniously adapted. The fortunate wearer of teeth constructed on this principle is astonished to find adhesion perfect (a thing never yet throughly effected), a fit the most accurate secured, and the use of thdse troublesome adjuncts, spiral springs, entirely dispensed with. This alone would be sufficient to stamp the merit of the patent; but, further, the superiority of the substance employed over every other yet discovered is seen in the perfection with which it can be moulded in every inequality of the gums and teeth, and in its supplying an artifical periosteum, as it were, io the teeth when become painful by tie waiting away of the gum ; added to this is great comfort the patient feels in being able to use any degree of foice in masticating, or in striking the teeth together without that percussion or rattling that attends the action in general cases, the permanent elasticity of the agent employed obviating this and every|other disagreeable motion; and in its rendering the teeth, in fine, part and parcel of the mouth itself, it may be said truly to attain the ne plug ultra of art—■“ ars est celare artem

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