Greene brothers' clinical course in dental prosthesis : in three printed lectures; new and advance-test methods in impression, articulation, occlusion, roofless dentures, refits and renewals / by Jacob W. Greene.

  • Greene, Jacob W. (Jacob Wesley), 1839-1916.
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[1914], ©1914
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Credit: Greene brothers' clinical course in dental prosthesis : in three printed lectures; new and advance-test methods in impression, articulation, occlusion, roofless dentures, refits and renewals / by Jacob W. Greene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS LECTURE I. Upper Mouth Only.—Reasons for Improved Methods. -—Old Ways Unreliable.—Test Impressions.—Impressions of All Sorts of Mouths.—All Kinds of Impression Mate- rials—Plaster, Modeling Composition, Bee's-Wax, and Combinations of Them.—All About Roofless Plates, Re- fits, and Renewals from Old Plates, by the Greene Test Methods.—Short-cut and Quick-step Upper Plates.—Un- reliability of Plaster Models and How The\' Cause Fail- ures.—Instructions in Use of the Greene Xon-changeable, Ready-made ]\Ietal ^lodels in ^ulcalli/,intl; and Swaging. —And so forth. LECTURE II. Lower Mouth Only.—Principles and Methods of First Lecture, as Applied to Lower Cases; with Others Special to the Lower.—Partial Impressions with Leaning Teeth and Bell-shaped Crowns.—Why Lower Dentures Are So Generally Unsatisfactory and How to Correct the Diffi- culties; by Muscle-trimming. Conforming, Shot-weighting and Tongue-})ower Methods, and Consequent Suction.— And so on. LECTURE III. The Bite, and All that follows, to the Finished Case. —Only the Tired-rest Position of the Jaws Reliable.— The Xo-bite Gives this Position.—How to Take It and Test It.—Bite ]Must Give Four Essential Points.—(a) The Show-length of the Teeth; (/->) Their In-and-Out Stand- ing; (f) Their Occlusion; and (r/) The Strain on the Tis- sues.—A Simple Pressometer.—Bites for Lower Partials and All About Them.—Some Old Troublesome Problems Solved.—Brand-new Occlusion Scheme for Difficult, Crip- pled Cases.—Each ^loutli Its Own Automatic Articulator in the Finis. — Ethics in Plate-work. — Interesting and Instructive Lecture to Patient Before Dismissal—And much more.