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Main description:

Though the prospect may fill us with dread, most of us need dental treatment at some stage - and the reality is that better care has never been available, as this fully illustrated book shows. Early dentistry was amateurish and limited to barber-surgeons, travelling tooth-pullers and blacksmiths, with patients often suffering as much from the cure as the malady; and even as things improved in the eighteenth century, fashionable dentures were still made from the teeth of dead soldiers or even of the poor. This authoritative introduction looks at this whole grisly history as well as at the increasing professionalism seen from the late nineteenth century onwards, which has led to very dramatic improvements in dental treatment, including modern dentures, amalgam fillings, anaesthetics and orthodontics, and to the current boom in cosmetic dentistry.


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From Tooth Drawer to Dentist: 1700-1800 / From a Trade to a Profession / A Visit to the Dentist / The Twentieth Century / Further Reading / Places to Visit /Index


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ISBN-13: 9781784420796
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Publication date: June, 2015
Pages: 64
Weight: 652g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Dentistry, General Issues

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