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PBOMIXENT CANINES AND DEPRESSED LATERALS. 751

an additional piece of platinum soldered to the portion next to the
space. Through these reinforcements, at about the centre of the tooth,

Fig. 733.

Dr. K. L. Taylor's reciprocal appliance.

holes were drilled entirely through the bands. Piano wire was next
bent into the form of small U-shaped springs, with the ends at right
angles, similar to Dr. Talbot's plan but without the coil. Grasping
these near the neck with a pair of narrow-beaked right-angle forceps,

Fig. 734.

Guilford's appliance- tor increasing space.

transversely grooved near the points to seize the wire, the springs were
placed in position with their ends resting in the holes in the bauds. As
from time to time tlie force of these springs became spent they were
removed and their power renewed l)y enlarging their curves."
In case of extraction of first molars, the bicuspids may be moved
backward and the incisors forward by Prof. Guilford's appliance.
Fig. 735 shows Prof. Angle's method of reinforcing the anchor
teeth bv a wire bar extendiuff to the lateral incisor.