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Fig. 811 shows a jilan for forcing lower incisors into their sockets.
A metal cap is swaged to fit over the occlusal edges. To this is sol-
dered a wire which extends out of the corners of the mouth and is bent
into hooks at each end. From these hooks rubber bands extend to a
chinpiece. To prevent this chinpiece from sliding forward it is neces-
FiG. 8T2.

Davenport's appliance for raisin sarv to extend a tape from it around the patient's neck. This appliance
Avas suggested by the interdental splint.
Fig. 812 show's an appliance for raising the bite, by Dr. W. S.
Davenport, exhibited at a meeting of the American Dental Society of
Europe, Aug. 5, 1895. " The means employed for correcting the irreg-

FiG. 813.

Case's appliance for raising the bite.
ularity was to in.sert a bridge appliance, which was fastened by means
of gold caps to the second molars, and brought forward a few lines
above the molars and bicuspids, resting with a gold saddle on the six
front teeth. In two weeks the arch was spread and tlie teeth were