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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    model, hold it down into its bite-plate firmly without strain on articulator, and plaster it fast. Xow, doctors, the practical fact is you can't get your bite too far back into the jaws of the old-line articulators. Far more imj^ortant than the brand of arti- culator is the essential fact that your bite=plate (which should be preferably of modeling com- pound) just must stay to place on the ridges and at normal platc-iccfiring- stress, when taking your so-called bite. And that it must also be held absolutely to place on the models while you set up the teeth. And again all this, especially the proper strain, when you occlude (try in') the case in the moutli—to see.' If these conditions don't all obtain, then all scientific, tine-spun, high-tension theories about bites, articulation and occlusion nmst fall in prac- tice. Furthermore the teeth must be held irremov- ably to place in their investment, in the flask, while vulcanizing and cooling. Put these Greene statements into your pipe and puff the smoke at all enthusiastic Occlusion- ists—in my name. BASE=PLATES. You are all familiar with the various base* ])lates used. I presume most of you take your bites in the same plate on which you set up your teetli, and call it a trial=plate. Well, if such tits snugli/ so it will tirmly hold onto the gums without help, and will not slide, that will do. But, if it should move at all, which it is liable to do, especially on flat gimis, the result is the same as if a wrong bite had been taken.