The independent practitioner : a monthly journal, devoted to medicine, surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, pathology and popular science . rland, under the title of The American Dental Society ofEurope/ and there is little doubt but that this association will con-tinue to exert its influence—which is already great—until through-out the entire continent of Europe the efforts of American skill,energy, and professional enterprise will be still more felt and appre-ciated. A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE INFERIOR JAW. BY DR. T. B. GUNNING, NEW YORK. Wm. McM., forty-two years old, was, for the purpose of robb
The independent practitioner : a monthly journal, devoted to medicine, surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, pathology and popular science . rland, under the title of The American Dental Society ofEurope/ and there is little doubt but that this association will con-tinue to exert its influence—which is already great—until through-out the entire continent of Europe the efforts of American skill,energy, and professional enterprise will be still more felt and appre-ciated. A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE INFERIOR JAW. BY DR. T. B. GUNNING, NEW YORK. Wm. McM., forty-two years old, was, for the purpose of robberybeaten insensible, and his lower jaw broken between the left incisorteeth. A large cut behind the chin extended up to the floor of themouth. The face generally was much swollen, with great pain inthe glenoid cavities and around the condyles. The displacement ofthe fragments was very determined, and bandages applied by themedical practitioners were unbearable. Subsequently, at the NewYork Hospital, the teeth were wired together, but this failing to holdthe fragments in place, it was decided to apply a hard rubber splint. -. W Original Communications. The lower jaw contained sixteen teeth, which were originally short,and by wear were by this time unusually so. A wax impressionwas taken of the whole at once ; the plaster cast from this was sep-arated at the point of fracture, an d the parts set in place with theassistance of a cast of the upper teeth, on the plan first made knownby Mr. John Tomes. On putting the splint on (See fig. 1), twelve days after the injury, some difficulty wasexperienced in getting the teeth intoplace, through adhesions holding thefragments of the jaw in openings were cut in the splint,one, the largest, in front of the teeth,each side of the fracture, in order toFig. 1. judge the positions of the fragments of the jaw. Although the jaw was allowed its natural movement, thesplint was not fastened to the teeth in any way whatsoever
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