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.

Date:: [1914], ©1914

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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$them. Yes, and as for that, aceoinplish the same results, even without anii articulator at all, other than the mouth itself, as for that. One of the hest plate^workers I have ever kno\\ii, working hy the old guess=work methods, has made artificial dentures for fiftyseight years, and has never had an articulator in his office. And though 1 have used articulators my- self for fifty-two years, I will here say that if I had no advance test methods in getting the true relations of tJie jazcs (the hite), hut had to guess*off everything, as I used to do, and as most other dentists still do, I would note throw my artificial articulators, anatomicals and all, onto the junk^pile. For, without this true relation, the hest of them are not only faulty, hut may he ahsolutely misleading. But, with the eertainty of the true relation of the jaws when at rest, and a close approdiina- fiou to their movement in action (the average), and with an articulator to help manifest these relations, we get a very close approximation to a correct articulation and occlusion. There is no trouhle in getting the exact, true i-elation of tlie jaws at rest in any individual case. But as to their relation when in motion we must he content, at the first, to get even a close approximation. We have heen given the true measurements of dead men's jaws and ingenious face ' how measurements of living men's jaws, occlusion planes, and condyle ])aths, and the like, eveJi unto hypertechnics. And thanks, honor, and glory to the men who have given them. Their teaching is often hel])ful, at least instructive. But, unfortunately, when most needed, the starting points can't he located with certainty$