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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

    165/256 (page 145)
    tentively with point four in its place a little later on. There are two methods of taking a bite, with variations in both. One is known gener- ally as THE BISCUIT, OR MUSH, OR SQUASH, BITE. It consists in placing a roll, or chunk, of wax, or other material, in the mouth and having pa- tient simply bite on it. The other is known as THE RIM BITE. Basesplates are made of various materials to approximately lit the gums, and rims of wax, or other material, placed on them; then bit'On and marked, and fastened together on their models, in the articulator. These are the two methods, given without detail; and it is sup- posed that you are familiar with one or the other, or both of them. My only use for them is as a basis for illustration and improvement. By tliis biscuit bite, you get no otie of the four points needed, iWdCtJif; and seldom very approximately, unless sometimes when it is pro- vided to give the first one (length of teeth), in a way, by use of a bite=stick. This is accomj)lished by placing a piece of wood in the biscuit to stop the lower jaw at the ]u-o])er distance from the upper one, and so give the length of the teeth. But, as this is seldom done, it is safe to say that generally in the biscuit bite you get noth- ing you want, excepting a very remote approx- imation of the relation of tlie jaws. It is really about all guess-work. [10]