A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . congenital syphilis has had such a result. The patient has suflTered from character-istic keratitis, cs well as from other symptoms of the disease. The loss of the bone wasattended with all the customary conditions of suppuration and foetor, and after it cameaway a hole into the nose was left, as depicted in the woodcut. The patients powerof speech was seriously aflected, and food and drink passed into the nose. A fewdays after the bone came away, I took a model of the mouth, and an obturator platewas made as rapresented in fig. 118. The girl b
A system of surgery : theoretical and practical . congenital syphilis has had such a result. The patient has suflTered from character-istic keratitis, cs well as from other symptoms of the disease. The loss of the bone wasattended with all the customary conditions of suppuration and foetor, and after it cameaway a hole into the nose was left, as depicted in the woodcut. The patients powerof speech was seriously aflected, and food and drink passed into the nose. A fewdays after the bone came away, I took a model of the mouth, and an obturator platewas made as rapresented in fig. 118. The girl being an hospital patient, the metalemployed was dental alloy, an alloy of silver and platinum, being less costly than for the plate was obtained by collars passing between the bicuspids and firstmolars and the bicuspids and canines. The application and fixing of the obturator immediately vectored all the functionsof the mouth ; food was occluded from the nose, and articulation and enunciation wereperfect. This immediate restoration
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