Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . mportant inthe first days of the trauma, permitting at that time the free move-ment of the temporo-mandibular articulation. At the moments ofrest, the high pillars inserted in the four pockets give the open biteaptitude which tends to steady the apparatus (fig. 2). In cases of 32 THE DENTAL REVIEW. method of choice is the metallic intermaxillary ligature which fastensthe lower maxilla to the upper. This method, adopted since theXHIth century by Whilhelmus of Piacenza, Italy, has been suc-cessfully followed by modern operators (Lemaire,
Dental review; devoted to the advancement of dentistry. . mportant inthe first days of the trauma, permitting at that time the free move-ment of the temporo-mandibular articulation. At the moments ofrest, the high pillars inserted in the four pockets give the open biteaptitude which tends to steady the apparatus (fig. 2). In cases of 32 THE DENTAL REVIEW. method of choice is the metallic intermaxillary ligature which fastensthe lower maxilla to the upper. This method, adopted since theXHIth century by Whilhelmus of Piacenza, Italy, has been suc-cessfully followed by modern operators (Lemaire, Leblanc, Gilmer,A. D. Black, Power, Oliver, Graham, etc.). My procedure is very simple. I encircle, if possible, the fourbicuspids of one side with single loops of Angles ligature wire(figs. 3, 4), then I wire together the two ligatures of the upperteeth (fig. 5) and the two ligatures of the lower, ligating at last theresulting upper ligature with the resulting lower ligature (fig. 6),holding in perfect anatomical relation the lower to the In this condition the patient can be notified as a transportablewounded, and is ready to be conveyed to territorial hospitals. Dental treatment is highly appreciated by soldiers at the front,relieving them from the torture of tooth-ache. My motto is: quickand well—in order to avoid vacancies to the troops. I am proudof giving conservative treatment as much as possible: extractionsare done in cases of pericementitis, or abscessed teeth or roots. De-cayed teeth with caries of first or second degree are filled at oncewith amalgam, those with exposed pulps receive an arsenic treat-ment at the first sitting; in a second sitting, after two days of thearsenical application, we extract the pulp, dress the canals withphenol and fill them (the bigger ones) with guttapercha conesmoistened with trikresor-formalin paste and fill the cavity with ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 33 amalgam or cement. In occasional cases, when hemorrhage doesnot sto
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