Page 13 - My FlipBook

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

When, about fifteen years ago, I began my first
experiments in the tightening of loose teeth, I was in-
fluenced solely by pity for my patients. Even eminent
scientists in the dental art had paid but trifling
attention to this branch of dentistry, and the patient
was ever given the stereotyped sorrowful answer :
Lost labour ! loose teeth must drop out."
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When from such a humane feeling I first undertook
the treatment of loose teeth, the literature of the sub-
ject was very meagre, and the timid beginner vainly
sought advice and counsel from any more experienced
master. Subsequently, after many failures, I obtained
gratifying results, and I accordingly desire to bring
before the profession the result of my many years'
researches and work.