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PREVENTIVE AND CURATIVE

TREATMENT OF THE

DISEASES OF THE TEETH;

CAN THE TEETH BE PRESERVE!) TO THE END OF LIFE ?
la the introduction of this work, we have pledged ourselves*
to attempt to show that the teeth of most persons may be pre
served to the end of life. We are fully aware, that in the
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opinion of many, this will be a difficult task ; indeed ah in-
surmountable one : notwithstanding, with a firm belief in the
correctness of the views we are about to advance, we shall
use our best endeavors to prove to the satisfaction of reasona-
ble minds, that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally
well formed, or ivhose structure is good, who enjoy such health
that the secretory organs he not destroyed, may be preserved
to the last day of their existence.
Some go even farther, and assert that the teeth of all per-
sons may be preserved through life. We do not believe this'
doctrine, for the teeth of some individuals are so defective iri'
their organization, arid the' health of others is so bad, and the ;
secretions of the mouth as welf as the body so viliated r that iiti
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