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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    It now reprensents the fullness of our coming denture all around. AVhile I 'ni not here to teach you physiog- nomatic taste, at all, I will suggest that you don 't give your patients a cat^fishy appearance by too square a front and too prominent bicus- pids—^^a very common, distortive habit among dentists. And always beware of tucking the front teeth inxcard, or the bicuspids oiitncard^ too much; especially for a woman—unless you want to make her husl)and, or beaux, look at some other face. All dentists guilty of this unpardonable sin against featural symmetry should be de*licensed. And oh, what a lot of vacant chairs there would be! TRIM BITE=PLATE FOR LENGTH OF UPPER TEETH. Next we '11 get tlie lip=line for the show* length of our artificial teeth. This you can get in your usual way, whatever that is; only be sure you get it. I prefer to use the laugh* stunt, as a rule. We look her in the eyes blandly and say: ]Madam. please smile or lan^h a little at me, will youT' She laughs, always promptly, when told to. So we trim till we get the rim to ve\i- resent the exact length we want the teeth to show; that is, their show=length as far back as they will show. Then, not as a matter of taste, but as one of mechanical philosophy, trim off the rest of the rim behind so as curve gradually upward; and make your last molar as short as possible (the exception would be M'here you want to prevent the cheek from falling inward) ; first, that your denture may have the compensat- ing curA^e (incidentally) ; but for another more