Keywords: Pierre Fauchard - Le Chirurgien Dentiste - dentures.png en A metal frame and carved animal teeth are used to construct a primitive set of dentures in this illustration from Pierre Fauchard's 1728 Le Chirurgien Dentiste The dentures would be held in place with metal leaf springs 1728 Le Chirurgien Dentiste 1728 Reprinted in Moriyama N Hasegawa M 1987 The history of the characteristic Japanese wooden denture Bulletin of the History of Dentistry 35 1 10 Pierre Fauchard other versions PD-old-100-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Pierre Fauchard Complete denture making 18th-century technical drawings Dental diagrams |