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Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: White, J. D McQuillen, J. H. (John Hugh), 1826-1879 Ziegler, George Jacob, 1821-1895 White, James William, 1826-1891 Kirk, Edward C. (Edward Cameron), 1856-1933 Anthony, L. Pierce (Lovick Pierce), b. 1877
Subjects: Dentistry Dentistry
Publisher: Philadelphia, S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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the gum, and it is the anterior portion ofthis band which is objectionable, causingrecession of the gum, etc. The principalfeature of my method is a notching me-sio-distally of the anterior face of theroot about half way anteriorly to the root-canal opening. (Fig. 1.) The root is first prepared in the same way as for the ordinary Richmond crown,and then the notch is cut. A piece of24-karat gold about iSo. 32 gage isthen soldered to a platinum-iridium post,placed on the root, and burnished firstto the notched surface. (Fig. 2.) It is then removed and that portion stiffenedwith solder. The. portion covering theposterior surface of the root is then splitso as to allow the surplus gold to beturned up and burnished, thus formingthe band. (Fig. 3.) After the cap hasbeen thoroughly burnished to the root,it is removed and invested in a little
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CONSTANTINI. ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS. 579 whiting, and solder is flowed so asto stiffen it and also to reinforce theportion which forms the band. (Figs. 4and 5.) By this method all the advantages ofa full-banded crown are available, andthe disadvantage of gold showing abovethe porcelain on the anterior portion ofthe root is obviated. The operator can thus form a cap which absolutely fits theface of the root and to which a facingcan be attached as in the ordinary Rich-mond crown. The notch across the faceof the root may be cut very easily with asharp inverted-cone bur. The cap maybe made of platinum and the rest of thecrown completed with porcelain in theusual way. ANTISEPTICS AND DISINFECTANTS. By C. L. CONSTANTINI, D.D.S., Washington, D. C. (Read before the union meeting of the Maryland State Dental Association andthe District of Columbia Dental Society, Washington, June 7, 1906.) THE object of this paper is to call at-tention to, or rather to stimulate theminds of the professi

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