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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    Next remove j'^our lower bite^plate off of its model, put on your lower base^plate, same as you did the upper; and the sticky^wax on it as before. And then the lower teeth approximately onto the sticky-wax as before. And then adjust them to the cooled upper ones as you want them. And then wax'up the whole lower case as you want it; of course all this time watching your guide=check screw underneath so as not to change your bite. And as I've before cautioned you: don't spring the jaw of your articulator in oc- cluding j^our teeth. After you have set j^our teeth up thus you can change the position of the front ones as you ])lease, even after setting them up to their ojipos- ing guide*rim or opposing teeth. And, to appear natural they often, if not gen- erally, sliould l)e more or less irregularly spaced and stationed. Only beware of any alteration in the length of the jaw teeth, after once set up to a Greene no=bite. They are the fixed corner^ stones of the tested relation of the natural jaws. But as to the front teeth: you can set or re-set them higher or lower. You can space them apart as far as you wish; lean them outward or inward, or turn them around in the sticky*wax. You can regulate or irregulate them at will, so long as you don't change the guide=screw nor disregard it. Your full, double case is now waxed up. TRYING TEETH IN THE MOUTH. Xow if you fear you liave missed any thing as to tile impression (whicli is hardly probable if you have carried out these instructions) you can take the waxed^up teeth off of their models in the