Manual of dental surgery and pathology . Case of fracture of the lower jaw, transversely through the hody, treated by means of a metalliccap, which fits tightly over teeth on each side of the fracture, and thus holds tho fragments in firmapposition. of cases be treated most successfully by the means and applianceswhich are best known to the latter, and especially in cases wheremany of tlie teeth are not wanting. To put up a fracture ofthe lower jaw, where much distortion exists, with a well-adapted 84 MANUAL OF DENTAL SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY. gutta-percha splint, moulded to the chin, and retaine
Manual of dental surgery and pathology . Case of fracture of the lower jaw, transversely through the hody, treated by means of a metalliccap, which fits tightly over teeth on each side of the fracture, and thus holds tho fragments in firmapposition. of cases be treated most successfully by the means and applianceswhich are best known to the latter, and especially in cases wheremany of tlie teeth are not wanting. To put up a fracture ofthe lower jaw, where much distortion exists, with a well-adapted 84 MANUAL OF DENTAL SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY. gutta-percha splint, moulded to the chin, and retained by afour-tailed bandaoje, appears to us about as good a means forperpetuating a deformity as would be the jipplication of aplaster-of-Paris bandage to an unreduced fracture in a simple form of treatment of a fracture in either jaw will Fio-. Model taken from a vertical fnicturo of the lower jaw between the left cuspidatus and firstbicuspid. The dotted line, which indicates the fracture, is the line to be sawn through in orderto bring the model into the normal position of the jaw. consist in constructing a plate of metal that will cap andsecurely hold several of the teeth on both sides of the effect this, wax or plaster impressions are taken of both jaws,the fractured one in its abnormal position ; from these plaster Fig. 57.
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