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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    and do, as tlie tenants of the Duke of Argyle once did. He advertised for the l)est way to make them grateful and to praise him, and the result was that he put up back=scratching posts at close convenience all over his estate. Then all the ])eo- ple scratched their backs every day and grate- fully rejoiced aloud: Blessed be tlie Duke of Argyle! l^ea, doctors, in severely needful cases you may catch their spirit and put up great sound' boards to re-echo: Blessed be the cranky old farmer dentist from the 'Show=me' State. If you don't, you'll be ungrateful for this $]00 ])()inter. (A class=man: (xive us more about the joker.') All right, I'll give you more. AV'elJ, to make room for this accommodating lingual support, the jaw teeth sliould l)e somewliat high, or long; and, that they may be so, the toucliing ones above must be correspondingly short. The rule, then, is to range tlie upper molars rather upwards and make the last one about as short as you well can; then, of course, bring up the opposite lower ones to correspond. The exception would be when the upper jaw teeth need to be long, to hold the cheeks out. But, nevertheless, long molars, especially long last' molars, are detrimental to comfortable wearing of upper dentures, anyhow. Dr. Geo. A. Wilson, the eminent prosthetic specialist, of Cleveland, Ohio, contends that the up^turn in the range of an upper set of teeth should be confined to the final molar; leaving the rest on a plain, occlusal line. And, strictly speaking, philosophicalh) he is probably correct. I can't say anatomically correct, for anatomies vary much in this respect.