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Title: Dental cosmos
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, b. 1821 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, Lovick Pierce, 1877-
Subjects: Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia : S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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improvedhis appearance. Mr. Hayman encountered great difficulty in obtaining a model ofthe mouth, but this being at length overcome, an ordinary upperplate was made in the usual way; a fresh difficulty now aroseowing to the absence of one side of the palate, so that the obturator PERISCOPE. 405 could not easily be held in place; to overcome this a slight flangeof vulcanite was extended to fit outside the face, in front of theramus of the lower jaw and against the septum of the nose; then alarge wedge of vulcanite was added, to fit into the posterior nares.This had the desired effect; the palate was secure, and speech andmastication considerably improved. With the obturator in position, a model of the remaining hollowwas taken, and from this a silver plate was struck, which fittedaccurately into the hollow and under the right ala of the nose; asmall tongue of silver was adjusted over the bridge of the nose, andon to this the spectacles were subsequently soldered. An artificial Fig. 1.
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cheek and eye were then modeled in wax to match the other sideof the face. A second silver plate was then struck upon a metalcast taken from this model, and soldered to the inner plate as a coveris fixed to a box. An artificial eye was then fixed to the plate inthe proper situation, and the face painted flesh-color and japanned.In order to keep the mask in position a strong wire, fixed to theposterior edge of the artificial cheek, passes around the right ear,and the ear-pieces of the spectacles are joined behind the head by anelastic band. Fig. 2 is a somewhat flattering portrait of the patient wearing 406 THE DENTAL COSMOS. the artificial cheek and spectacles. His appearance is undoubtedlyconsiderably improved, and, apart from this, the obturator enables Fig. 2. 1

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