United States or Mexico ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The lips of the fair woman could be seen to say that they were sweet when, laughing or discoursing, they gave sight of teeth proudly her own, rivalling the regularity of the grin of dentistry.
She placed it over one of the caneless chairs, and begged his Excellency to be seated. It was a half holiday at the school, she complained, otherwise her family would be less numerous. 'Where does your husband do his dentistry? Barstein inquired, seating himself cautiously upon the board. 'Do I know? said his wife.
It is evident that the members of the Papal court, the Cardinals and the Pope himself, had the advantage of rather good dentistry at John de Vigo's hands even as early as the beginning of the sixteenth century. John de Vigo, however, is not medieval. He lived on into the sixteenth century and was influenced deeply by the Renaissance.
They used it for painless dentistry and things like that! This blue stuff is confoundedly good: what is it?" "Haven't the faintest idea," said Mwres, "but I admit it's very good. Take some more." The hypnotist repeated his praises, and there was an appreciative pause.
"What man could think of hunting when he could be talking to you instead?" said old Astrardente, whose painted face adjusted itself in a sort of leer that had once been a winning smile. Every one knew he painted, his teeth were a miracle of American dentistry, and his wig had deceived a great portrait-painter.
But needs must when the devil drives, and we of the Snark have no warning when the devil may take it into his head to drive, ay, even a thousand miles from land and twenty days from the nearest port. I did not know anything about dentistry, but a friend fitted me out with forceps and similar weapons, and in Honolulu I picked up a book upon teeth.
The next stage probably will be to begin with bow-legged babies, take their bones and bend them straight when they are soft, or educate their mothers to keep them from walking too soon. The essential thing that has happened to dentistry is that they now kill the germs that decay the teeth.
I. All men's teeth are naturally in a state of total decay or caries, and, therefore, no man can bite until every one of them is extracted and a new set is inserted according to the principles of dentistry adopted by this Society. I, for one, should want to discuss that before signing my name to it, and I should say this: Why, no, that isn't true.
Wolcott himself having frequent engagement; to fill as operator in the details of mechanical dentistry. Thus, by the aid of Mr. Fitz, the reflector was polished, and experiments soon after tried on plates of two by tow and a half inches, with tolerable success. Illness on my part quite suspended further trial for nearly four weeks.
It has always seemed to me that the story of Medieval Dentistry presented an even better illustration of a great anticipatory development of surgery. This department represents only a small surgical specialty, but one which even at that period was given over to specialists, who were called dentatores.
Word Of The Day