The Dental cosmos . being completed. Six visits were requiredfor adjusting the apparatus to bringabout these changes. A local dentistunder my direction added force by bend-ing the springs occasionally. Fig. 18 illustrates an appliance usedfor depressing the lower incisors, and 352 THE DENTAL COSMOS. moving outward the upper incisors for apatient sixteen years of age. The ap-pliance was similar to the one last de-scribed. The upper and lower first bicus-pids had been injudiciously removed byanother practitioner. The features werenot sufficiently prominent, requiring the Fig. incisors and c
The Dental cosmos . being completed. Six visits were requiredfor adjusting the apparatus to bringabout these changes. A local dentistunder my direction added force by bend-ing the springs occasionally. Fig. 18 illustrates an appliance usedfor depressing the lower incisors, and 352 THE DENTAL COSMOS. moving outward the upper incisors for apatient sixteen years of age. The ap-pliance was similar to the one last de-scribed. The upper and lower first bicus-pids had been injudiciously removed byanother practitioner. The features werenot sufficiently prominent, requiring the Fig. incisors and canines of both arches to bemoved forward, and the spaces artificiallyfilled. 1 have used apparatus for opening thebite in a variety of cases, but owing tolack of time, will merely mention one ortwo additional cases. Miss S., fifty-one years of age. () The early regulation of the teethhad been neglected, and an extreme prog- nathous Condition had resulted, the lowerincisors biting near the gum in front ofthe upper ones. The bite was opened andthe lower incisors were moved backward,after which a chin-cap was applied toforce the jaws together and to adjust theocclusion. (Fig. 20.) Fig. 20.
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