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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    might show; as he had been fooled in bites too often. Well, said I, for your sake I '11 admit this to be wrong; not uncertain, but tcrong. AVould you be satisfied if I could set up a set of teeth just tliat wrong, with their cusps and counter^sjjaces knuckling together like these, in the mouth? Yes, I tJteti would be satisfied, said he. So I proceeded to sliow him by setting up the teeth. And that is wliat I will now do for you. TRANSFER NO.BITE TO ARTICULATOR. We must now transfer the no-bite from the mouth to the articulator, which is to be an approx- imate representative of the i^eal anatomical, bone* and-flesh machine itself. But now, before I leave the no=bite, I must say, of course, in the remote event that our notches and knuckles sliould fail to jibe togeth- er in the last tired=short=snap'test, it tcould be because one or more of the times the bite'plates (one or the other, or both) did slip; or else be- cause the lower jaw really did move, in some degree, horizontally. It couldn't be otherwise. Then I 'd do the notchsandsknuckle ^vork over till I got my no=bite test. ANATOMICAL MOVEMENT ON THE NO=BITE. If I have what I call a crip])le case, I make that individual mouth its oavu articulator, in a ]jractical sense. By a cripple case I mean, for instance: (a) A prominent jimble^jaw of extended mal=])rotrusion; or, (h) One of the reverse, retrusion: or, III]