. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. e determination on the part of the attendant, to carryout the necessary manipulations within the mouth, more par-ticularly during the first few days after the operation; andeven after the shields are fitted to the mouth they causesome pain and inconvenience, which only those who havearrived at years of discretion will submit to. Fig. 187 shows the form of the silver shields adaptedto the upper and lower jaws by the late Mr. Clendon, formerlydental surgeon to the Westminster Hospi
. Injuries and diseases of the jaws : the Jacksonian prize essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867. e determination on the part of the attendant, to carryout the necessary manipulations within the mouth, more par-ticularly during the first few days after the operation; andeven after the shields are fitted to the mouth they causesome pain and inconvenience, which only those who havearrived at years of discretion will submit to. Fig. 187 shows the form of the silver shields adaptedto the upper and lower jaws by the late Mr. Clendon, formerlydental surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, in a case of Holts. The patient was a girl of seventeen, andwas under Mr. Holts care in 1862, having five years beforehad fever, with an abscess of the cheek on the right side,which led to such contraction and adhesion of the mucousmembrane to the jaw as to cause great difficulty in opening CLOSURE OF THE JAWS. 407 the mouth. Some attempts had heen made to open hermouth by the screw, &c., and in 1860 Mr. Holt divided someof the cicatrix with temporary benefit, Mr. Holt now divided Fk;. the cicatrix within the cheek freely under chloroform, andencountered a firm plate of bone extending between thealveoli of the two jaws, which necessitated the use of a sawfor its division. Mr. Clendon subsequently fitted the above-mentioned shields to the teeth, and wedges were gradually Fig. 188.
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