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The Arabs not only treated and filled carious teeth and even replaced those that were lost, but they also corrected deformities of the mouth and of the dental arches. Orthodontia is sometimes said to be of much later origin and to begin many centuries after Abulcasis' time, yet no one who knows of his work can speak of Orthodontia as an invention after him.
An ounce of adenoids-removal in the young child is worth a pound of orthodontia teeth-straightening in the boy or girl; though both are often necessary. The dull, dead tone of the voice in these children is, of course, an obvious effect of the blocked nostrils.
Here, however, we find that practically all our dental manipulations, the filling of teeth, artificial dentures, even orthodontia, were anticipated by the dentists of the Middle Ages.
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