A practical treatise on mechanical dentistry . would accurately occlude withthe interdental splint, the splint being removed, the additional bone APPLIANCES FOR THE CORRECTION OF FRACTURED MAXILLAE. 425 deposited in the ramus would preclude the possibility of perfect occlu-sion of the teeth, each set with the other. Ottolenguis Splint.— Under these circumstances I obtainednew impressions of the jaws, and hurried from the hospital in Brook-lyn to my office in New York, arriving in the laboratory at oneoclock. I started again for the hospital at five oclock, carrying thecompleted splint with me.
A practical treatise on mechanical dentistry . would accurately occlude withthe interdental splint, the splint being removed, the additional bone APPLIANCES FOR THE CORRECTION OF FRACTURED MAXILLAE. 425 deposited in the ramus would preclude the possibility of perfect occlu-sion of the teeth, each set with the other. Ottolenguis Splint.— Under these circumstances I obtainednew impressions of the jaws, and hurried from the hospital in Brook-lyn to my office in New York, arriving in the laboratory at oneoclock. I started again for the hospital at five oclock, carrying thecompleted splint with me. I mention this as an indication of whatmay be done in an emergency. Models, dies, and counter-dies arethen made. Using 20-carat gold, 29 gage, I struck up a continuouscap to cover all of the teeth in each jaw, in the incisive region, how-ever, extending only over the cutting edges. The plaster models,with the gold covering the teeth, were then occluded, and the twocaps fastened together with hard wax. They were then invested and Fig. permanently united with solder. It may be useful to record a littletrick in connection with the soldering, which saved a great deal oftime. Of course the teeth of two jaws do not occlude like cog-wheels, consequently these gold caps were found to be in contactat some points, while spaces appeared at others. I took a piece ofplatinum wire and cut it into small bits, which I bent into suitablecurves and dropped into the spaces. These bits of wire served asleaders for the solder, which flowed like water, closing the seamthroughout its entire extent. Fig. 216 shows the form of thisdouble interdental splint, made of gold. I mentioned that in the incisive region the splint extended onlyslightly over the cutting edges. There was a useful purpose inthis, which is comprehensively shown in Fig. 217 where the splint 426 MECHANICAL DENTISTRY. is seen as it appeared in the mouth. Had the labial surfaces of theanterior teeth been covered as well as the
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