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Title: Plastics and plastic filling; as pertaining to the filling of all cavities of decay in teeth below medium in structure, and to difficult and inaccessible cavities in teeth of all grades of structure
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Flagg, J. Foster (Josiah Foster), 1828-1903
Subjects: Dentistry, Operative Dental Materials
Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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all be filled by its aid. The only carriers which I have seen that rival, in the least,the one described, are those of Dr. H. S. Chase — No. 3 — andDr. Thomas Fry — No. 4; both are ingenious and effectiveOf the other carriers illustrated,— Nos. 6 and 7,— they eitherdo not do that which is required, or do it much less easily andefficiently than those more particularly referred to.* Another form of carrier is that known as the AmalgamDirector—No. 5. This is the invention of Dr. E. R. Mul-lett, and consists of a peculiarly shaped spoon, with a lightand appropriate handle. It is a very neat instrument, and, witha little experience, will prove a complete preventive to loss ofmaterial in the filling of these inaccessible cavities. It is as well adapted for carrjdng hard amalgam as it is forsoft mixed mass, and for this reason is the only one at all use- *I n5w regard the double-end spoon-shaped carrier, pattern ofDr. W. CFoil Iks, as the best I have ever used. See Plate, Fig. A.
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THE INSERTION OF AMALGAM FILLINGS. 99 ful in wafering. It is particularly valuable Ja directingamalgam into buccal cavities both superior and iaferior. It is not so good for carrying amalgam to cavities upon tbedistal faces of upper teeth as either the Chase or Elhott carriers,but it conduces to cleaner work, and is more frequently advan-tageous than any other carrier. In this connection, I should not omit the information that,in addition to many appliances in furtherance, advantageously,of amalgam work, there are also quite a number which aretruly curiosities in their way. Some are made with one endabout equidistant in form between a toothpick and a sail-needle, and with the other end in the shape of a little cup soattached as to be incapable of subserving any purpose, even ifthere was any purpose to subserve; others have ends some-thing like shoehorns, and handles like modern ice-picks; inshort, the singularity of form illustrated by these instrumentsis only exceeded in degree by th

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