Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws : a practical treatise on the surgery and diseases of the mouth and allied structures / by Vilray Papin Blair.

  • Vilray Papin Blair
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1913
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Credit: Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws : a practical treatise on the surgery and diseases of the mouth and allied structures / by Vilray Papin Blair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or flaps transferred from neighboring healthy tissue. According to F, C. Wood, even if such flap grafts slough, they sometimes leave the tissue in such a healthy condition that Thiersch grafts will then grow satisfactorily. SUTURES. On the face and in the mouth, interrupted sutures are in most in- stances preferable to continuous sutures. And, except when buried, TAT SVT TT PNT oT AO VS oe fav 5 Sa erans 74 .@) CK “es a7 ] DRY ae feo? Sesenak BEY s ae 6” ON COC SERS NU GILT Fig. 20. od 6 509 CRAIC ECL IY Rew Sect mat SEE FLTC fio PEELE. Wild “hs BLO OL LIS LS RLM ; q y ] eee AIT) Fig. 22. Fig. 23. Fig. 17. Suture that causes skin edges to lap. Fig. 18. A suture that penetrates too deep in comparison to its lateral extent may cause a depression at the wound edge. Fig. 19. A properly placed suture. , Fig. 20. Illustrating how each suture should cross the wound at right angles. Fig. 21. A deep suture suitable for a mucous surface that will not allow the mu- cous borders to overlap. f ~ : Fig. 22. <A modification of the deep stay suture that Lane uses in the lip. This is tied on the mucous surface. 4 . 5 Fig. 23. A suture that approximates the deep and superficial tissues. This suture must be drawn loosely, or the tissue within the grasp of the short loop of the suture is apt to slough. silkworm gut, horsehair, or silver wire are to be used in preference to silk or catgut. On the neck, continuous sutures may be used in the form of the ordinary whip stitch or the glover’s stitch. On the neck, metal clips may be used for the skin, but they do not approximate the platysma muscle. The subcuticular suture of silver wire, silkworm gut, or catgut, when accurately done, gives a nice ap-
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