Identifier: dentalcosmos5619whit (find matches)
Title: The Dental cosmos
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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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center of articulating surfaces of thecondyles. This line, of course, cannot besecured in the live subject. WHERE THE BASE LINE IS OBTAINED. The writer has discovered that ac-curate measurements in every case maybe obtained by measuring from pointsupon the ascending posterior border of DALBEY.—ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS IN ARTIFICIAL DENTURE .MAKING. 271 the rami at the necks of the condyles.This measurement is taken just behindthe lower lobes of the ears—with spe-cially made calipers having- thimblepoints—by pressing snugly inward and of the triangle upon which depends theaccuracy in the construction of the arti-ficial denture. The writer wishes it to be understoodthat this triangle is not always ;in equi- Fig. 6.
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forward upon the necks of the condyles.(See Fig. 4.) Fig. 5 shows clearlywhere the measurement is taken. Thismeasurement is then transferred to theadjustable anatomical articulator. (SeeFig. 6.) This line is therefore of thegreatest importance, as it forms the base lateral triangle. While he believes itabsolutely necessary to take into con-sideration the correct measurement be-tween the condyles, and that the artic-ulator be adjusted to this condylarmeasurement of the patient, yet it is justas important to obtain a eondyle-incisor 272 THE DENTAL COSMOS. measurement, or rather, as will be shownin the following pages, an oscillating-point-to-incisor measurement. If one isof more importance than the other, it isthe latter measurement. The object ofthis paper is to inspire greater accuracy,if possible, in triangular measurementsfor each individual case, regardless ofwhether the triangle be equilateral orotherwise. locating tlie Fundamental JjinesUsed in Anatomical Articulation. It is now

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