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POLISHING FILLINGS 189
(b) The Buccal or Labial and Lingual portions then receive
attention, the excess being removed by the use of the knives,
the files, or, where convenient, small stones, finishing burs,
sand and emery disks (Fig. 214).
(c) The Occlusal or Licisal portions next receive attention
in the same manner, leaving the contact point untouched
(Fig. 215).
(d) The entire filling is then gone over again, with the
exception of the contact point, with the finer poHshing strips
Fig. 218.—Polishing the contact point.
and disks, using the disks only on the labial, buccal, lingual,
incisal or occlusal margins, utilizing the strips for the shaping
of the inter-proximal portion (Figs. 216, 217).
(e) The contact point should now remain as a small marble
contact, as nature intended it, and is now gone over (being
careful not to flatten it) with a fine linen polishing strip,
making increased separation, if necessary, for this purpose
(Fig. 218).
(f) In case a still higher finish is desired, the exposed sur-
faces are now gone over with whiting or rouge on the buffers.
(b) The Buccal or Labial and Lingual portions then receive
attention, the excess being removed by the use of the knives,
the files, or, where convenient, small stones, finishing burs,
sand and emery disks (Fig. 214).
(c) The Occlusal or Licisal portions next receive attention
in the same manner, leaving the contact point untouched
(Fig. 215).
(d) The entire filling is then gone over again, with the
exception of the contact point, with the finer poHshing strips
Fig. 218.—Polishing the contact point.
and disks, using the disks only on the labial, buccal, lingual,
incisal or occlusal margins, utilizing the strips for the shaping
of the inter-proximal portion (Figs. 216, 217).
(e) The contact point should now remain as a small marble
contact, as nature intended it, and is now gone over (being
careful not to flatten it) with a fine linen polishing strip,
making increased separation, if necessary, for this purpose
(Fig. 218).
(f) In case a still higher finish is desired, the exposed sur-
faces are now gone over with whiting or rouge on the buffers.
