American Journal of Dental Science (Volume 10) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... know of several persons who si nee Townsend's recommendation and others, have continued to use this paste as well as other soft ingredients, equally questionable, who were quite capable of using gold in almost any desirable manner, but have since declared that they were alone suitable for operations reforming the crowns of teeth. ARTICLE VII. Reparation of the Face and Palate by Mechanical Means. By Wm. H. Hoopes, D. D. S. Every operation, whether surgical or mechanical, which aims at a restoration of the natural appearance of the human face when a part of it has been destroyed, is attended with peculiar interest. This arises from two causes. First, deformities of the face are especially disgusting to the patient and to the beholder. Secondly, surgical appliances have to be skillfully managed, or they merely call attention to the fact that such an effort has been made without success. The case herewith reported offered but little hope of any relief on account of the extent of the deformity; but it was undertaken and with what success may be inferred from the sketches of the face copied from photographs taken before and after the apparatus was made and adapted. The history of the case and the present state of the affected parts are as follows: H. R aged 30 years, has enjoyed good health until fifteen years ago, when he contracted primary syphilis. About four years afterward, the disease in a tertiary form attacked the internal surface of the nasal bone and continued to spread for some five years, when fortunately its progress was arrested, though not until it had committed the most terrible destruction of the bones and soft parts of the face. The appearance of the face presented gives but an inadequate idea of it. It may be better understood by a descripti...