CHAP. III. Of the Placing of teeth artificially made in stead of those that are lost or wanting.
IT often times happeneth that the fore teeth are moved, broken or stricken out of their places by some violent blow, which causeth deformity of the mouth, and hinders plain pronunciation. Ther∣fore when the jaw is restored (if it were luxated or fractured) and the gums brought unto their former hardnesse, other teeth artifi∣cially made of bone or Ivory may bee put in the place of those that are wanting, and they must bee joyned one fast unto another, and also so fastened unto the naturall teeth adjoyning, that are whole; and this must chiefly bee done with a thread of gold or silver, or for want of either, with a com∣mon thread of silke or flaxe, as it is declared at large by Hippocrates, and also descri∣bed in this figure following. * 1.1
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The figure of teeth bound or fastned together.