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capable of being used, at the same time was so comfortable. This machine
has not only the good (|ualities of anything that has heretofore existed, but it
is much more comfurtal)le."
ENAMELIN(i ARTinCIAL TEETH.
The author continues
''It seems im])ossible, and it is at least very difficult, in the construction of
artificial jaws and teeth from tlie materials mentioned, to make a piece that
shall be covered entirely with enamel and whose color shall correspond with
tlie natural color of the teeth. Therefore, I liave thouglit tliat 1 niiglit be
able to find an artificial enamel which could be used to imitate the most
beautiful and best enamel of the teeth, and also to preserve the natural color
of the gums which have been altogether or in part replaced. To this end
I went to the most skillful enamel makers and consulted them with reference
to a matter, that so far as I know, no one had undertaken before—to imitate
with enamel the color of teeth and of the gums.
"Natural eyes had been artificially imitated and artificial eyes of enamel
had been made, but no one had thought to apply this enamel in the construction
of artificial teeth, notwithstanding tliat artificial plates of teetli have a great
advantage over artificial eyes. They add as much to the beauty as do these,
and aside from this they help to remove a deficiency of a ])art of the body
whose ugliness shocks any one who looks at it."
This process of enameling adopted by Fauchard was prohahly the fore-
runner of indestructible and porcelain teeth.
He describes a method in vogue of fastening artificial pieces. This con-
sisted of boring holes through the artificial pieces and through the gums and
fastening them in such a manner that the artificial dentures were supported
"similarly to ear ornaments, by holes pierced through the lower lobes of the
ear, which gave them no firmness or security in the mouth." He tells of
a case of an old Avonum who had a plate inserted on that principle who
was a great sufi'erer from the same, Init who, "fortunately, in a paroxysm of
coughing, was relieved of tlie further annoyance of this attachment because it
flew into the fire, from which it could not Ijc removed until half consumed."
OBTUKATORS.
Fauchard devotes a large space to the description of obturators and par-
ticularly describes a "macliine" which combined artificial teeth with an arti-
58 HISTOItY OF DENTAL SURGERY
capable of being used, at the same time was so comfortable. This machine
has not only the good (|ualities of anything that has heretofore existed, but it
is much more comfurtal)le."
ENAMELIN(i ARTinCIAL TEETH.
The author continues
''It seems im])ossible, and it is at least very difficult, in the construction of
artificial jaws and teeth from tlie materials mentioned, to make a piece that
shall be covered entirely with enamel and whose color shall correspond with
tlie natural color of the teeth. Therefore, I liave thouglit tliat 1 niiglit be
able to find an artificial enamel which could be used to imitate the most
beautiful and best enamel of the teeth, and also to preserve the natural color
of the gums which have been altogether or in part replaced. To this end
I went to the most skillful enamel makers and consulted them with reference
to a matter, that so far as I know, no one had undertaken before—to imitate
with enamel the color of teeth and of the gums.
"Natural eyes had been artificially imitated and artificial eyes of enamel
had been made, but no one had thought to apply this enamel in the construction
of artificial teeth, notwithstanding tliat artificial plates of teetli have a great
advantage over artificial eyes. They add as much to the beauty as do these,
and aside from this they help to remove a deficiency of a ])art of the body
whose ugliness shocks any one who looks at it."
This process of enameling adopted by Fauchard was prohahly the fore-
runner of indestructible and porcelain teeth.
He describes a method in vogue of fastening artificial pieces. This con-
sisted of boring holes through the artificial pieces and through the gums and
fastening them in such a manner that the artificial dentures were supported
"similarly to ear ornaments, by holes pierced through the lower lobes of the
ear, which gave them no firmness or security in the mouth." He tells of
a case of an old Avonum who had a plate inserted on that principle who
was a great sufi'erer from the same, Init who, "fortunately, in a paroxysm of
coughing, was relieved of tlie further annoyance of this attachment because it
flew into the fire, from which it could not Ijc removed until half consumed."
OBTUKATORS.
Fauchard devotes a large space to the description of obturators and par-
ticularly describes a "macliine" which combined artificial teeth with an arti-
