A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . 128 FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW Fig. Beans apparatus for broken jaw, applied. dental surfaces, and it speedily hardens sufficiently for all practicalpurposes. In gunshot fractures, however, and in certain other badly comminutedfractures, I can well understand how the surgeon may advantageously avail himself of vulcanized rubber,which, being somewhat harder, maybe made to grasp the teeth attachedto the several fragments more firmly ;and indeed may, in a few cases, allowof the teeth being made fast to thesplint by screws. It will be observ
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . 128 FRACTURES OF THE LOWER JAW Fig. Beans apparatus for broken jaw, applied. dental surfaces, and it speedily hardens sufficiently for all practicalpurposes. In gunshot fractures, however, and in certain other badly comminutedfractures, I can well understand how the surgeon may advantageously avail himself of vulcanized rubber,which, being somewhat harder, maybe made to grasp the teeth attachedto the several fragments more firmly ;and indeed may, in a few cases, allowof the teeth being made fast to thesplint by screws. It will be observed that these arethe cases which Dr. Bean has hadchiefly under treatment. An examination of the cases re-ported by Dr. Covey will also showthat the apparatus was never appliedearlier than the tenth day, even whenthe patients were under the charge ofDr. Bean from the first, and that inmost cases the application of the ap-paratus was delayed to a much laterperiod. Indeed, it is apparent thatthere may be the same reasons for occasional delay in the applicationof vulcanized rubber as in the a
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