Observations on the history, use, and construction of obturateurs, or, what have hitherto been called in the country, artificial palates, with cases illustrative of recent improvements / by James Snell.
- Snell, James
- Date:
- 1824
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Credit: Observations on the history, use, and construction of obturateurs, or, what have hitherto been called in the country, artificial palates, with cases illustrative of recent improvements / by James Snell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![much more extensive. The patient had lost the complete half of the os maxillare superius, leaving a cavity which extended from the anterior incisor along the palatine raphe to the commence- ment of the soft palate, exposing, to its whole ex- tent, the left antrum, and making a free commu- nication between the nose and mouth. This loss of substance was supplied by an Obtura- teur somewhat similar to the last described, with this exception, that the plate was of gold, and was fitted over the whole extent of the hard palate, and held in its position by gold caps sol- dered to the plate, which caps fitted over the teeth on the sound side and held the whole aparatiis steady in its position. Defects of the hard palate produced by disease, &c., are not unfrequently attended with loss of the upper lip, which may be supplied either by gold enamelled, elastic gum, or bone, which, if scientifically adapted, and coloured, will have all the appearance of the natural parts. The following case, mentioned in the Medical Repository, is one supplied by the] latter sub- stance. The patient had undergone the talicotian](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21473808_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
