Manual of dental surgery and pathology . The surgeons knot. The clove hitch. Suppose it be desired to draw a single tooth out to a positionin the arcii corresponding to its fellows, as the left lateral inFig. 43: Take a piece of highly elastic rubber, conveniently a Fis:. 43. Fiff. O O o Rings cut from rubber tubing Drawing a tooth forward into the archby an elastic ligature. (After a plastercast.) ring cut from a French rubber tubing such as is used for sepa-rating teeth. Fig. 44, say from ith to ith inch in diameter, tieto this by a square knot a piece of strong sewing-machine shoe- 76


Manual of dental surgery and pathology . The surgeons knot. The clove hitch. Suppose it be desired to draw a single tooth out to a positionin the arcii corresponding to its fellows, as the left lateral inFig. 43: Take a piece of highly elastic rubber, conveniently a Fis:. 43. Fiff. O O o Rings cut from rubber tubing Drawing a tooth forward into the archby an elastic ligature. (After a plastercast.) ring cut from a French rubber tubing such as is used for sepa-rating teeth. Fig. 44, say from ith to ith inch in diameter, tieto this by a square knot a piece of strong sewing-machine shoe- 76 MANUAL OF DENTAL SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY. thread, leavin^^ the end six or eight inches long from the ring;by these ends tie the rubber tightly against the first bicus-pid or molar on that side. Tie a similar piece of thread andrubber to a bicuspid or molar of the other side, and pass oneend of another thread through the rubber ring stretching infront of all the oral teeth, except the one to be drawn intoplace, behind which it will pass. Tie fast by a surgeons knot,and thus keep up steady tension. If the teeth antagonize so as to prevent the tooth from pass-ing front to its position, one or more of the lower teeth in thevicinity may be capped with gutta percha, silver, or gold, top


Size: 1714px × 1458px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectdentist, bookyear1882