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
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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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    Xow, Madam, I want you to give me an- other slow, shortsbite, just the same as you did before. Close slowly till your lips touch lightly, and hold the plates as closely together as you can tcithout toucliing. You now know how to act promptly. ''One, tico, three, four, free, sid\ seven, eight, nine, ten—snap! Hold now, as before, till I mark again. I this time make a perpendicular mark on the lower rim immediately opposite the very center of each of my test^notches. Then I take the plates out of the mouth and with the Kerr tracing^stick I hot=drop three small test=knuckles onto the lower bite-rim to fit into the test notches above. (Here this lit- tle fine art is shown i)ractically; by first droj)- ping a molten wee-bit of the roll tracing^stick onto tlie occluding edge of the lower rim. right op]>osite the mark thereon, and pressing it. a little bit, into its mate^notch on the upper rim, thus forming a test=knuckle.) We make the first pair of notch=and=knuckles centrally in front; then one on either side, one at a time. To ])revent sticking together, one or the other of the plate=rims is dipped into cool water the instant before the two are pressed together (outside the mouth.) We then trim off any little side surplus about the knuckles, and re=warm and press back together, to make sure these latter knuckles don't interfere with the exact coming together of the rims hettceen them, whicli miglit destroy our proper stress, established by our pressometer. This fitting the knuckles into their notches recjuires care, but is (juickly done—yes, in one minute of time.