. The Dental cosmos. All the cleft-palate pieces which havebeen made in the past have been madewith a motion which causes them to rise,but not to fall. It was the cliniciansopinion, before attempting to make thepractical apparatus exhibited, that this Fig. was not sufficient, but that we must havea piece which would both rise and fall,lie started to work to make such a piece,making first a solid gold plate to re-store the hard palate, which is a simplematter, and which has been done by hun-dreds of men before. He then attached DEXTAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 101 to that gold plate
. The Dental cosmos. All the cleft-palate pieces which havebeen made in the past have been madewith a motion which causes them to rise,but not to fall. It was the cliniciansopinion, before attempting to make thepractical apparatus exhibited, that this Fig. was not sufficient, but that we must havea piece which would both rise and fall,lie started to work to make such a piece,making first a solid gold plate to re-store the hard palate, which is a simplematter, and which has been done by hun-dreds of men before. He then attached DEXTAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 101 to that gold plate, by means of twogold screw posts, a tongue of gold(Fig. 2) fitting in the slot of the goldplate caused by the form of the cleft,the heads of the screw posts projectinginto the nasal cavity, where they do noharm and cause no inconvenience. Thisgold tongue and the soft piece areshown in Fig. 3. unvulcanized rubber into shape as nearlyas possible, placing it upon the tongueand putting in the mouth, and tryingto place it so that the patient couldtalk and retain the appliance without itsgagging him or touching the back ofhis throat. The thick part of the softpiece was made of two thicknesses ofpalate rubber; before vucanizirifr, and Fig. 4.
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