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Essay on the importance of regulating the teeth of children before the fourteenth year, or the period of life when the second set of teeth become perfectly developed.

New York: J. A. Fraetas, 1841.

This 11-page pamphlet was the first American work on orthodontics.

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Entry Number#12867
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/15114
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Geographic Context

Publication place: New York