The Dental cosmos . s to the policy of the Dental Cosmos, that is sufficiently indi-cated by its past. Its aim will be, as heretofore, to present in the bestmanner the best that dentistry affords. The Dental Cosmos claimsto be de facto the independent dental journal, and it requires but abrief comparison of its pages with those of other dental periodicals tosubstantiate the claim. We invite prompt renewal of subscriptions. Subscription price, $ a year, in advance. Postage free toUnited States, Canada, and Mexico. Postage to Universal Postal Union countries, 50 cents additional. The S. S. W
The Dental cosmos . s to the policy of the Dental Cosmos, that is sufficiently indi-cated by its past. Its aim will be, as heretofore, to present in the bestmanner the best that dentistry affords. The Dental Cosmos claimsto be de facto the independent dental journal, and it requires but abrief comparison of its pages with those of other dental periodicals tosubstantiate the claim. We invite prompt renewal of subscriptions. Subscription price, $ a year, in advance. Postage free toUnited States, Canada, and Mexico. Postage to Universal Postal Union countries, 50 cents additional. The S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. I 124 THE DENTAL COSMOS. HINTS AN_D_QUERIES. Supernumerary Molars.—This case, which came under my charge afew weeks ago, may be of interest to the dental profession in general : A gentleman forty-one years of age applied to me for the treatment of aleft upper molar which was badly decayed. An examination of his upper jawrevealed the presence of four molars on each side. Before removing the de-. cayed tooth I obtained an impression of the upper jaw with the abnormality,which is shown in the illustration. Upon inquiry I found that the supernum-erary molars had erupted about six years previously, the patient being at thattime thirty-five years of age.—S. M. Hartman, , Victoria, B. C. Splints and Stalls.—Physicians and surgeons, no less than dentists, areinterested in whatever may be conveniently and quickly made to conform toa circumscribed part of the human body, and firmly retain such form duringa longer or shorter period of time. The ideal base-pjate, originallydesigned for strictly dental uses, I have found to be specially adapted for theimmediate construction of small splints, or compresses. From its presentsupply-form of small plates, say three by four inches, only minor splints asfinger-stalls can be readily made, but no doubt the inventor may be inducedto make sheets of say ten by twenty inches for general surgical uses. One has only to tak
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