Author : William J. Younger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330317648
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Book Synopsis Transplantation of Teeth Into Artificial Sockets by : William J. Younger
Download or read book Transplantation of Teeth Into Artificial Sockets written by William J. Younger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transplantation of Teeth Into Artificial Sockets Transplantation of teeth from one mouth to another is not, by any means, a new operation, as it was done many years ago for the noble and the opulent of the old world. It is not only mentioned in some of the very old works on surgery, but even by writers of fiction. Not only did the poor mar their mouths to sell their teeth, but even the freshly dead were disfigured for this purpose. Victor Hugo, himself, utilizes a knowledge of this operation in "Les Miserables," and makes one of his heroines, Fanchon, sell two of her front teeth in order to procure food for her starving child. But so many disastrous consequences occurred, so many painful effects followed, and so many failures happened, that the operation fell into disrepute and was abandoned as soon as artificial substitutes were invented that approached, in some measure, a natural appearance and in some degree served the purpose of mastication. Not until I was in Paris in 1877, however, did I learn how the operation of transplantation was effected, and in learning that, I acquired an insight into the causes of the many disastrous, painful and futile results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
