Manual of dental surgery and pathology . Scoops. sizes may he required, and as they are worn down in sharpeningthey will approach these favorite numbers. Some curved, as thelast four, for rights and lefts, may be likened to the hand, arm,and elbow ; they are useful to reach down between teeth uponthe floors of the approximal surface cavities, cutting thatportion near the necks of the teeth, the sides may best befinished by the plain scoops or hoes. They may be used alsoupon the mesial walls of molar crown cavities. For hatchets, there may likewise be no ex[)lanation of theiruse required, beyon


Manual of dental surgery and pathology . Scoops. sizes may he required, and as they are worn down in sharpeningthey will approach these favorite numbers. Some curved, as thelast four, for rights and lefts, may be likened to the hand, arm,and elbow ; they are useful to reach down between teeth uponthe floors of the approximal surface cavities, cutting thatportion near the necks of the teeth, the sides may best befinished by the plain scoops or hoes. They may be used alsoupon the mesial walls of molar crown cavities. For hatchets, there may likewise be no ex[)lanation of theiruse required, beyond the reminder that there is great tempta-tion to cut with them in lines parallel to the dentinal tubuli;a thing to be avoided, except where the tooth-substance is deador its connection with the pulp cavity severed. The first two. THE SELECTION OP INSTRUMENTS. 143 Nos. 14 and 16, may be well recommended, of the others it maybe said that they are ottered as guides to select from. Fiff. 107. ( ^ 1l 1l n Tl 11 Hi) Of hoes, no description as to the method of their use will berequired. The first, ISTo. 27, is the one that should be providedat the outset, and of the others the same may be said as aboveof hatchets. Fi?. 108. Fisr. 109. 27


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