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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    on the sidewalk, trampled in the dust of hu- miliation by the thoughtless multitude—only an 8=2Denny nail, rusty from ill=treatment, neg- lect, and inactivity. But humble as the common nail is, it en- ables Madam Old Plain Line?' to sweep the ana- tomical horizon to the right and to the left in graceful, competitive waltz. What an honor to the down-trodden old nail to have enabled the long'guyed old ]Madam to impart such lateral sheep-=bite benefit to toothless humanity! Well, let 's stop praise, and ask the old thing to prove she 's from ]Missouri by show- ing us. I'll be her humble servant. Watch me. I '11 baptize her upper jaw, teeth and all, into cold water. Then I '11 give the teeth of her lower jaw a warm reception over our cheerful spirit=lamp till they are ready to move in the right direction. See! Xow I clasp my Mhole left hand firm- ly over her cold upper jaw and hold it tightly all around; then fully clasp her more tractable louver jaw, in tlie same way, with my right hand—'that lifted the lost nail from the mire and the clay to glorious usefulness. With the upper teeth cold and set in stolid firmness, and the lower ones warm and willing to yield to their superiors, under pressing cir- cimistances, I '11 give the command to Side- wiggle! And all on a sudden the teeth be- low have exactly Avaltzed themselves toward those above them, to practical anatomical jux- taposition—if we 've watched the set=screw and haven't bent the metal jaw. We now have lateral occlusion, also. But the action of ]Madam Plain'Liner isn't up=tosdate yet. She must now set her face in