. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Two pieces of gutta-percha of suit-able size are softened and formed into wedges and introduced betweenthe jaws, the edge of tlie wedge directed backward. The jaws areclosed upon them, the fragments pressed up until the line of the teethis straight, and the wedges moulded to the sides of the teeth above and 1 Ackhmd: Britisli :\lodic;il .lournal, April 1, 161)3.^ Ciurlt: Loc. oit., vol. ii. p. :>iK>. 184 FRACTURES, below. As soon as the gutta-percha has hardened it is removed, trimmed suitably, and reapplied, and the jaws are bound to
. A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations. Two pieces of gutta-percha of suit-able size are softened and formed into wedges and introduced betweenthe jaws, the edge of tlie wedge directed backward. The jaws areclosed upon them, the fragments pressed up until the line of the teethis straight, and the wedges moulded to the sides of the teeth above and 1 Ackhmd: Britisli :\lodic;il .lournal, April 1, 161)3.^ Ciurlt: Loc. oit., vol. ii. p. :>iK>. 184 FRACTURES, below. As soon as the gutta-percha has hardened it is removed, trimmed suitably, and reapplied, and the jaws are bound together with a bandage. Vulcanized rubber is a valuable substitute for gutta-percha in some Fig. 79. ^^^H^ .:* .^ T I ^?1 ^B v^«l V^l i^H^^^^ B? „^^ |n^H Matass splint. difficult cases, but its employment requires special skill and experiencewhich are found usually only among the dentists. Casts of one or bothjaws are first taken in wax; from these plaster models are made, andupon these latter the splint. Figs. 77 and 78 show the splint as made. Matass splint for fracture of lower jaw. by Dr. Kingsley, of New York, with attached bars by which the splintand jaw can be bound firmly together, the bandage passing from onebar to the other underneath the chin. The Matas^ splint (Figs. 79, 80, 81) is said to be easily adaptable to 1 Matas: Annals of Surgery, January, 1905, p. 1. PHACTtlRES OF THE BONES OF THE FACE. 185 individual cases of fracture of the body of the jaw, and consequentlyof value in hospital service. It consists of a gutter of soft block tinroughly shaped to the line of the teeth and attached by hinged rods to Fig. 81.
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