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METHODS OF FILLING TEETH.
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sufficient for the purpose, but a further stability is attained by repeat-
ing the process. If possible, the thread should be cut off at the outset
long enough to serve for all the tying. If this be done, the next step
would be to work backward once more, using the figure 8, and then
forward with the other. If the teeth are thus enwrapped six or
again
times (that is, three or four of each), the loose tooth will not
eight only
be held the other, but will be supported so that the
firmly against
mallet does not cause pain.
FIG. 49.
If the are well and one will lie above the
ligatures neatly placed,
other so that when completed they resemble tape.
I now come to the of four or more teeth, whether for a
ligaturing
temporary or permanent purpose. I may as well, perhaps, enumer-
ate some of the circumstances wherein such tying becomes useful.
Where teeth are badly loosened by pyorrhea, so that cure is either
impossible or else must result only after a course of treatment cover-
ing a year or more, if they are to be united, it will probably be best
FIG. 49 a.
to accomplish this by continuous gold filling or some method oth*er
than to Where the disease is in an
resorting ligating. incipient stage,
or where the teeth are in a mouth which it would be wrong to disfigure
by a show of gold, then the ligature must be depended upon. Again,
the flax thread may be relied upon in cases of teeth loosened by frac-
ture ; for holding regulated teeth during twenty-four hours while a
retaining plate is being made ; for the support of one or more loosened
teeth, elongated so that shortening by file or corundum wheel is neces-
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sufficient for the purpose, but a further stability is attained by repeat-
ing the process. If possible, the thread should be cut off at the outset
long enough to serve for all the tying. If this be done, the next step
would be to work backward once more, using the figure 8, and then
forward with the other. If the teeth are thus enwrapped six or
again
times (that is, three or four of each), the loose tooth will not
eight only
be held the other, but will be supported so that the
firmly against
mallet does not cause pain.
FIG. 49.
If the are well and one will lie above the
ligatures neatly placed,
other so that when completed they resemble tape.
I now come to the of four or more teeth, whether for a
ligaturing
temporary or permanent purpose. I may as well, perhaps, enumer-
ate some of the circumstances wherein such tying becomes useful.
Where teeth are badly loosened by pyorrhea, so that cure is either
impossible or else must result only after a course of treatment cover-
ing a year or more, if they are to be united, it will probably be best
FIG. 49 a.
to accomplish this by continuous gold filling or some method oth*er
than to Where the disease is in an
resorting ligating. incipient stage,
or where the teeth are in a mouth which it would be wrong to disfigure
by a show of gold, then the ligature must be depended upon. Again,
the flax thread may be relied upon in cases of teeth loosened by frac-
ture ; for holding regulated teeth during twenty-four hours while a
retaining plate is being made ; for the support of one or more loosened
teeth, elongated so that shortening by file or corundum wheel is neces-
