Warped Plates. [Volume: 2, Issue: 5, December, 1860, pp. 272-273]

THE DENTAL COSMOS.

of his own, he said, and desired me to treat it so. I consented to do so,
having first entered my protest against the unprofessional character of the
treatment he proposed.
In accordance with his request, I then extracted the tooth, clipped off
about a line in length from the end of the fang, then screwed it in my
table-vice, between two pieces of pine wood previously prepared for the
purpose, and with proper instruments then proceeded to remove the pulp
and nerve, after which I filled it with gold. I then removed the tooth
from my vice, immersed it in warm water, and, grasping it with my forceps, having seated my patient in the chair, I replaced it in the socket
from which, fifteen minutes before, I had removed it. Here it was retained
by a mechanical appliance for a day or two; the soreness gradually subsiding, in two weeks the gum was attached to the neck of the tooth,
which was again firm and feeling natural. At the present time the tooth
is more yellow than its fellows; there is no other difference perceptible.
Have you (the editors) or any of your correspondents ever heard of a
similar case?
I send you a tooth herewith recently extracted from the mouth of a
young man twenty-three years of age. It is a superior incisor, and the
fang is no more than one-fourth of an inch long. I have never before seen
so short a one; have you? I have extracted molars for the same person
which had not this peculiarity.
AvOCA, N. Y.
We have never heard of a case of extracting and cutting off the apex
of a tooth and returning it to the mouth. J. D. w.
We have many teeth in our possession with as short roots as the one
described above. J. D. w.
WARPED PLATES.
BY T. M. BENTLEY.
I SEE in the August number of the DENTAL COSMOS an article by A. M.
Hills, giving a plan for swedging sprung or warped plates. The idea is a
good one, but is not new to me. I have used it in several instances, and
as well for fitting old plates as for fitting those that are sprung in soldering. My plan for getting the casting and counter-casting, which are to
be placed in a press or vice, is nearly the same as that given by Dr. Hills.
I simply place a rim of wax on the female casting to occupy the space
where the artificial teeth are to come, then take a plaster cast, which is
exactly adapted to the inner border of the alveolar ridge and the roof of
the mouth, in ease it is used for an upper set; and, let me remark, I have
never sought to use it for the lower set for a very obvious reason, but for
an upper plate you are often entirely successful.
JfrFERSON, WISCONSIN.