Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . Fig. 147.—Rose Position and Self-Retaining Mouth Gag. ing the field of operation cleaner—instead of the bloodgoing to the stomach it remains in the nasal cavitiesor is discharged through the anterior nares; third, it aids OPERATIONS 321 anesthesia; fourth, it places the head in the best positionfor operation, the operator sitting at the head of thepatient, working over the superior teeth (see figure 147). The Rose position is best secured by the use of thehead-rest of an ordinary operating table, or by an extra
Oral surgery; a text-book on general surgery and medicine as applied to dentistry . Fig. 147.—Rose Position and Self-Retaining Mouth Gag. ing the field of operation cleaner—instead of the bloodgoing to the stomach it remains in the nasal cavitiesor is discharged through the anterior nares; third, it aids OPERATIONS 321 anesthesia; fourth, it places the head in the best positionfor operation, the operator sitting at the head of thepatient, working over the superior teeth (see figure 147). The Rose position is best secured by the use of thehead-rest of an ordinary operating table, or by an extrahead-rest with a body portion passed under the patient—the head-piece being placed at an angle of 45 degrees tothe plane of the body, Brophy and many other operators do not place theirpatients in the Rose position, but on a horizontal Fig. 148 and 149.—Brophys Periosteal Elevators.
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