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year 1728,) and as yet, they have made but very little pro-
gress in public favour, either in Europe or this country,
which they most assuredly would have done, had they pos-
sessed those advantages which some interested individuals
have ascribed to them, we must infer some bad properties at-
tached to them .whilst the use of the natural, and animal, and
ivory teeth has been extended to almost every part of Europe
and this country.
In concluding the subject of porcelain teeth I will remark,
that having some insurmountable objections in the nature of
their substance, their reputation has ever depended, in a great
degree, upon the ingenuity of their fabricators. My own
individual opinion of them is, that for single teeth, or a few in
contact with others, they are much surpassed by natural
teeth ; but for whole sets, if well and ingeniously executed,
and perfectly adapted to the mouth, they possess high advan-
tages, and are nearly, if not quite equal, to those formed of
other substances, natural teeth, &c. I will conclude the sub-
ject by giving the opinion of M . Delabarre, one of the most
ingenious mechanical dentists in Paris. He remarks,* " The
composition teeth, placed in the mouth, along side of the
others, are nearly always illy matched with the other teeth
there is something about them that does not appear natural,
that shocks a delicate eye, and which at length detects the
mystery.
" In the mean while, until making them is brought to per-
fection, I think the preference ought to be given to natural
teeth, where one is to be replaced here and there ; but if a
complete set of teeth is wanted, porcelain is preferable, be-
cause the person being without teeth, there can exist nothing
by which a comparison can be made."
* Odontologie sur les Dents Humaines, par M. Delabarre, page 67. Paris.
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year 1728,) and as yet, they have made but very little pro-
gress in public favour, either in Europe or this country,
which they most assuredly would have done, had they pos-
sessed those advantages which some interested individuals
have ascribed to them, we must infer some bad properties at-
tached to them .whilst the use of the natural, and animal, and
ivory teeth has been extended to almost every part of Europe
and this country.
In concluding the subject of porcelain teeth I will remark,
that having some insurmountable objections in the nature of
their substance, their reputation has ever depended, in a great
degree, upon the ingenuity of their fabricators. My own
individual opinion of them is, that for single teeth, or a few in
contact with others, they are much surpassed by natural
teeth ; but for whole sets, if well and ingeniously executed,
and perfectly adapted to the mouth, they possess high advan-
tages, and are nearly, if not quite equal, to those formed of
other substances, natural teeth, &c. I will conclude the sub-
ject by giving the opinion of M . Delabarre, one of the most
ingenious mechanical dentists in Paris. He remarks,* " The
composition teeth, placed in the mouth, along side of the
others, are nearly always illy matched with the other teeth
there is something about them that does not appear natural,
that shocks a delicate eye, and which at length detects the
mystery.
" In the mean while, until making them is brought to per-
fection, I think the preference ought to be given to natural
teeth, where one is to be replaced here and there ; but if a
complete set of teeth is wanted, porcelain is preferable, be-
cause the person being without teeth, there can exist nothing
by which a comparison can be made."
* Odontologie sur les Dents Humaines, par M. Delabarre, page 67. Paris.
