. Dental ately sent for some ofthe earlier cases of jacket crowns, and for one patient removedfive in which the pulps were as sound as when the caps wereadjusted 15 years before. In all except the devitalized teeththe cement adhered to the tooth structure so firmly that 1was obliged to chisel it off, and invariably the tooth structurewas perfectly sound and wholesome beneath the caps. Sincethat time I have made it a regular business, as fast as myold patients come in, to take off the old metal caps andreplace them with the new form of hoods. What I mean by the elimination of fillings
. Dental ately sent for some ofthe earlier cases of jacket crowns, and for one patient removedfive in which the pulps were as sound as when the caps wereadjusted 15 years before. In all except the devitalized teeththe cement adhered to the tooth structure so firmly that 1was obliged to chisel it off, and invariably the tooth structurewas perfectly sound and wholesome beneath the caps. Sincethat time I have made it a regular business, as fast as myold patients come in, to take off the old metal caps andreplace them with the new form of hoods. What I mean by the elimination of fillings for teethis simply a substitution of the enameling process for fillingwith inlays. I call the inlay work patch-work because it isimpossible to gain sufficient depth in the anterior parts anJbetween the teeth without having the opacity of the cementshow through. Therefore not only are the irritating metalbands done away with, but greater translucency is secured,and this by the use of the minimum quantity oi
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