A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work . IDGE-WORK. The evident advantages of bridge-work have stimulated theinventive genius of dental mechanists to improve the methodand form of its construction and to extend its these objects in view, some bridges have been made so asto be easily detachable by the dentist, and others removable bythe patients themselves. The construction of bridge-work in either of these formsovercomes the chief objections to the system. Large bridgesare much more easily made in a detachable or removable formthan are the smaller pieces, wh
A practical treatise on artificial crown- and bridge-work . IDGE-WORK. The evident advantages of bridge-work have stimulated theinventive genius of dental mechanists to improve the methodand form of its construction and to extend its these objects in view, some bridges have been made so asto be easily detachable by the dentist, and others removable bythe patients themselves. The construction of bridge-work in either of these formsovercomes the chief objections to the system. Large bridgesare much more easily made in a detachable or removable formthan are the smaller pieces, which present some of the l;)estfeatures of the permanently attached *. The following ingeniously constructed bridges will serve toillustrate some of the more valuable detachable and removablemethods. DR. WINDERS SECTIONAL CROWN METHOD; This method, an invention of Dr. R. B. Winders, of Balti-more, presents the novel feature of constructing the crowns andforming the abutments in sections, the bridge being attached tothe detachable section. Fig. Fig. 377 illustrates a case of l)ridgc-work made in this collar section of the artificial crown is capped and cementedon the natural crown or root, the gold formino; the occludins: 189 190 ARTIFICIAL CROWN- AND BRIDGE-WORK. portion of the crown, when the bridiic is adjusted in position,being secured to it with a screw. The screw may be made toenter the body of the crown as in Fig. 378, or it may be Fig. 378.
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