Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston.

  • Grayston, William Cass.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Notes on the treatment and filling of teeth / by Wm. Cass Grayston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    used, the end of the strip may be attached to the gold that is ah-eady in the cavity, without any particular care being taken as to whether it is packed flat or not. The point of the plugger is then placed on a part of the projecting strip in such a manner that one, two, three, or more layers are simultaneously packed down and condensed, the gold being worked on the whole fau-ly flat. Irregular masses of gold, such as pellets cut from a rope, or little balls (if the latter should ever be used), will not, as a rule, produce such hard and evenly con- densed fillings as the flatter forms. This is shown by these fillings often becoming pitted or roughened by the force of mastication. This can be avoided by making the surface of tapes or squares. Manipulation of Gold.—Decidedly the best cohesive gold-work is accomplished by means of a mallet, providing the cavity admits of a mallet plugger being accurately used. Many cavities demand the use of right-angle or curved pluggers, but the writer, after trying four right-angle mallets, found none of them satisfactory. Many operators—particularly in countries where patients consider gold fillings an ornament to their teeth — do not hesitate to cut away part or the whole of labial walls in incisors and canines in order to use a mallet. This is a proceeding that