A practical treatise on the technics and principles of dental orthopedia and prosthetic correction of cleft palate . y corrected as shown by the models in the lower half of Fig. 42, whichalso shows his obturator in position. It was necessary to take the impressionin three sections in this case, as described and illustrated in Chapter III. Thisimpression shown in Fig. 13 was photographed before filling for the working-model. CHAPTER VII. IRREGULARITIES AND SURGICAL FAILURES 475 The first, or test obturator was of flexible rubber, but before the close of the daythis was substituted for a hard po
A practical treatise on the technics and principles of dental orthopedia and prosthetic correction of cleft palate . y corrected as shown by the models in the lower half of Fig. 42, whichalso shows his obturator in position. It was necessary to take the impressionin three sections in this case, as described and illustrated in Chapter III. Thisimpression shown in Fig. 13 was photographed before filling for the working-model. CHAPTER VII. IRREGULARITIES AND SURGICAL FAILURES 475 The first, or test obturator was of flexible rubber, but before the close of the daythis was substituted for a hard polished rubber obturator, which remained in hismouth during that first night, and every night since, without a retaining patient was presented at the November, 1914, meeting of the OdontologicalSociety of Chicago about two weeks after the first insertion of his obturator, andeven at that early stage he could perfectly articulate nearly all the oral elements ofspeech when pronoimced for him separately, and most of the single syllable wordswhich are difficult for cleft palate patients to utter. Fig. The above shows (.1) a not uncommon lack of development and malocclusion. (2) Below,the partial correction of the upper front teeth, preparatory to the construction of anobturator which is seen in place His mother wrote the author about a year afterwards: He is now taking his placein his school classes with the greatest satisfaction to his teachers and friends, speakingnearly all his words with quite distinct articulation, except when he forgets himselfand speaks rapidly. We feel it will not be many months before he completelycorrects these former habits of speech. With this change and its possibilities inhis speech and voice, there will come into his countenance the happy animatedexpression of boyhood which will take the place of the former dull look of despair. One of the most difficult and at times discouraging conditions which confrontsthe specialist in the mechanic
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