The Dental cosmos . CORRECTING IRREGULARITIES OE THE TEETH. *77 A crib was made for each side of the arch, to encircle all of theteeth back of the incisors ; a slight separation was made by wedgingin front of the cuspids, and a round iridio-platinum wire was flattenedto pass into the space on either side, and extended back following theline of the gum and surrounding the cuspid, bicuspids, and was supported and made to more firmly clasp the teeth bymaking cross-bars to connect the two sides of the crib by passingover the articulating surface at the junction of the teeth, serving al
The Dental cosmos . CORRECTING IRREGULARITIES OE THE TEETH. *77 A crib was made for each side of the arch, to encircle all of theteeth back of the incisors ; a slight separation was made by wedgingin front of the cuspids, and a round iridio-platinum wire was flattenedto pass into the space on either side, and extended back following theline of the gum and surrounding the cuspid, bicuspids, and was supported and made to more firmly clasp the teeth bymaking cross-bars to connect the two sides of the crib by passingover the articulating surface at the junction of the teeth, serving alsoto keep the crib from pressing on the gum. There was a loop soldered to the crib-wire opposite the palatalsurface of the first molar on each side of the arch, into which loopwas hooked the end of a piano-wire formed like the letter S, andextended forward, passing justback of and following the curveof the incisors. There wereplaced on the incisors gold col-lars with lugs soldered on theirpalatal surfaces, to hold t
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