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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 patient at this age? If so, begin/So I began, and the successful issue ofmy attempt is vouched for by Figs. 4 small D bands were adjusted to thefour second deciduous molars: the Eplain arches were used both above andbelow, sheath hooks being attached tothe arch above opposite the lateral in-cisors, from which small rubber ligatures MEXDELL.—A CORRECTED CASE OF PRONOUNCED MALOCCLUSION, ETC. 823 were stretched to the ends of the tubeson the D bands below.* I had no diffi-culty in adjusting the appliances, andthe little fellow wore them with appar-ently no discomfort. Instead of the sen-sitiveness and embarrassment older pa-tients often feel because of the more orless conspicuous character of the appli- labial surfaces of the upper central in-cisors, but the little boy did not wear itvery well, so I readjusted the regulatingappliances, which I had him wear fortwo months more. At the end of thattime all fixtures were removed from theteeth. I have kept close watch of the case Fig. 6.
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ances, he swelled with pride, and felt aglorious superiority over his enviousplaymates. The treatment was begun the latterpart of February 1905 and as I left thecase largely to the mothers care—viz,the changing of the rubber ligatures—it progressed more slowly than was neces-sary, but by the first of June 1905 it wasready for retention. I first tried a platecarrying a bar made to rest against the * All as described by Dr. Angle in tbe DEN-TAL Cosmos for March 1903. ever since, and find that the teeth arekeeping the corrected position perfectly.The lower first permanent molars areonly just erupting, none of the perma-nent incisors having erupted as vet.When all of the first molars and the cen-tral incisors above and below haveerupted, I shall take pleasure in makinga further report of the case. No comments on the philosophy oftreating this case at his age arc neces-sary. An intelligent examination of themodels must convince anyone that mal-occlusion of the permanent teeth would 824

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