Manual of dental surgery and pathology . through thebody of the bone exists. It is best constructed of vulcanite,.andconsists of an interdental splint for each jaw, constructed inone piece. By it, the two jaws act upon each other, the soundone assisting in holding the injured one in position. The jawsare kept a short distance apart, and an opening between the twosplints in front of the mouth admits of the introduction offluid food without movement of the jaws. The plates may beretained by the screws, but with adults this is not as a rulenecessary, as a bandage round the head will keep the two
Manual of dental surgery and pathology . through thebody of the bone exists. It is best constructed of vulcanite,.andconsists of an interdental splint for each jaw, constructed inone piece. By it, the two jaws act upon each other, the soundone assisting in holding the injured one in position. The jawsare kept a short distance apart, and an opening between the twosplints in front of the mouth admits of the introduction offluid food without movement of the jaws. The plates may beretained by the screws, but with adults this is not as a rulenecessary, as a bandage round the head will keep the two jawstogether. But of all appliances devised to this end, and especially forfractures of the lower jaw, the splint of Hammond certainly, in 86 MANUAL OF DENTAL SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY our opinion, appears the most efficacious. It consists of a stoutpiece of iron wire, bent so as to include the whole dental archon both sides of it, and soldered at its terminations. Whenapplied to the dental arch, it should just rest upon the gum on Fig. Hammonds splint in situ. either side at the level of the necks of the teeth. When soplaced, it is firmly secured to the jaw by passing fine silver oriron binding wire between the teeth at their necks, and attach-ing it to, and twisting it tightly upon, its inner and outerportions. It is a somewhat tedious and unpleasant process,but such labor is well repaid when, as in a case recently treatedat St. Bartholomews Hospital by our esteemed colleague,I. Lyons, the patient within half an hour of its application hadeaten a mutton-chop and smoked a pipe with much the case of edentulous jaws, vulcanite splints may be adapted,but even if lined with soft rubber, a material about as hard asleather, their pressure on the soft mucous membrane can be butill tolerated, and especially when in the lower jaw they aresecured to the chin, by connecting the splint with a gutta-percha cap fitted over the latter. [As a temporary splint for fractures of
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