The Dental cosmos . bandage. An occipital bandage attached to the tooth alone seemed tome crude and ungovernable, and likely to result in injury to thetooth by displacement or irregularity and lack of delicacy in its Herbsts method of securing an implanted tooth by a strip ofrubber-dam covering the crown of the tooth in question, perforatedand slipped over the adjoining teeth and tied to their cervices, occurredto me ; but these incisors had no cervices, and were too short to afford Fig. any such fastening. In this dilemma I concluded to make gold capsfitting the three unbroken
The Dental cosmos . bandage. An occipital bandage attached to the tooth alone seemed tome crude and ungovernable, and likely to result in injury to thetooth by displacement or irregularity and lack of delicacy in its Herbsts method of securing an implanted tooth by a strip ofrubber-dam covering the crown of the tooth in question, perforatedand slipped over the adjoining teeth and tied to their cervices, occurredto me ; but these incisors had no cervices, and were too short to afford Fig. any such fastening. In this dilemma I concluded to make gold capsfitting the three unbroken incisors and cement them fast to the teeth,having first connected the three caps by gold wires passing across infront and back of the mended tooth, leaving an intervening spacearound it. Upon each of these wires were soldered three little goldbuttons, as shown in Fig. 14. THE DENTAL COSMOS. Here I wish to describe a ready method of making such taking an impression of the teeth in modelling- composition,and hardened it in cold water, it was dried, and that part representing the four incisors and the surrounding gum w as filled with good,quick-setting amalgam, with sufficient edge strength, mixed rathersoft, and packed tightly into the impression. After the amalgamhad hardened, the composition was removed w ith hot water, leavinga perfect fac-simile of the teeth in me tal. This amalgam cast wasmounted for convenience on a block of the composition, or a stand-ard may be made of pla
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