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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    the soft lower rim off fairly close to the way the teeth should be set up. Xext we would place the bite, as a whole, ill the articulator in a way to see it make as nearly as possible the same movements the jaw made in masliing off the lower bite=rim. Future generations may discover some way to breathe the })reath of life into metal jaws; but even then they'll have to also discover some way to graft bite=plates onto them, that their maneu- vers may make good. In some cases I 'd face my lower bitesrim with soft-stone (plaster one to pumice=stone three) for easier abrasion. (Index S.) If patient had natural teeth above, we would use a model of them; if artificial ones, either a model of them or the denture itself, in the articulator. In this kind of work it is best to use mod- eling c()mi)()siti()n in liolding the models in the articulator, so that, if necessary, it may be soft- ened in the slow adjustment, sometimes inev- itable in ariculathig bites. We 'd then set our upper teeth to the lower bite=rims, to its (inatomicaUy mashcchoif or rcoru- uf .surface, carefully. Then set up the lotcer to the upper ones, as wanted, anatomically, of course. The teeth, set up in this way, must have very close approximation to their needed positions. We would then wax up our case, not for- getting our tongue^rest arrangements: and cool both ])lates while yet on the articulator. Tlien take them off tlie articulator and warm the lower teeth sliglitly over a hand - spirit' lamp fiame, just enough to render them movable un- der some pressure, in tlieir waxed environment.