Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . have been severely criticised for operatingas I did. The success of this operation stimulated me to makeothers. Going on from time to time I found it necessary to constructinstruments especially adapted to my work, as there were nonein the surgical instrument shops to serve my purpose. Those Ihave made recently are great improvements upon those formerlyemployed. ORIGINAL DENTISTS HELP AT THE ITALIAN FRONT. 31 BY CAPTAIN ARRIGO PIPERXO, M. D., D. D. S. Head of the odonto-stomatological department of theItalian Red Cross
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . have been severely criticised for operatingas I did. The success of this operation stimulated me to makeothers. Going on from time to time I found it necessary to constructinstruments especially adapted to my work, as there were nonein the surgical instrument shops to serve my purpose. Those Ihave made recently are great improvements upon those formerlyemployed. ORIGINAL DENTISTS HELP AT THE ITALIAN FRONT. 31 BY CAPTAIN ARRIGO PIPERXO, M. D., D. D. S. Head of the odonto-stomatological department of theItalian Red Cross Hospital of War N. 4. Stomatological cases are very frequent among the treatment has been proved to be very useful to an advanced hospital the immediate treatment must be a treat-ment of urgency, of course, in order to give places to the new-com-ing wounded. When the application is possible, the Angles bowwith molar bands and ligatures (Angle-Sauers method) is a veryeasy method of treatment in fractures of the jaws. In cases of. fractures of the angle or the ramus of the lower jaw my emergencyheavy losses of the lower jaw I modified the Gunnings splint intwo articulated splints, one for the upper maxilla, with four pillars,one for the lower, with four pockets, where the upper pillars takesupport. Both splints are of vulcanized rubber (fig. 1) and arefixed in place with cement. The separation of the splints allows theopening of the mouth for dressing the wound, so important inthe first days of the trauma, permitting at that time the free move-ment of the temporo-mandibular articulation. At the moments ofrest, the high pillars inserted in the four pockets give the open biteaptitude which tends to steady the apparatus (fig. 2). In cases of 32 THE DENTAL REVIEW. method of choice is the metallic intermaxillary ligature which fastensthe lower maxilla to the upper. This method, adopted since theXHIth century by Whilhelmus of Piacenza, Italy, has been suc-cess
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