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Identifier: 39002086341865.med.yale.edu
Title: Transactions
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Connecticut State Dental Association
Subjects: Dentistry Dentists
Publisher: Philadelphia
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
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mouth she would be sure toobserve it, she having been away for twoyears. She came to my office afterwardand told me that her sisters attentionhad not been directed to the mouth, andwe believe that she also was deceived,so that her entire family, with the ex-ception of her husband, knows nothingof any change in her mouth to this day. This method, together with the closeimitation of the natural organs, showsthat it is not necessary to subject ourpatients or their friends to a shock, eitherbefore or after the piece is made. There is another feature that appealsto me as a factor of the truly artisticin prosthetic dentistry. It is not suffi- 50 TRANSACTIONS OF THE cient, to my mind, that we replace thenatural organs by artificial dentures orbridge work. We should construct apiece that is not only pleasant to the have had patients ask me if I could notroughen the plate, that it was so smooththey noticed it all the time, and it madebread feel like cotton-wool in the mouth. Fig. 10. Pig. 11.
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tongue, but that will restore as fully aspossible the masticating function, thecontrolling of the food bolus in themouth by the tongue, and furnish theself-cleansing spaces that add so greatlyto the general comfort of the mouth; in Therefore the application of the rugaeon all dentures is an important feature,and instead of giving to the tongue sideof the denture a perfectly smooth sur-face, the rugae should be restored, givingit a somewhat irregular surface, which Fig. 12. Fig. 13.

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