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employed, at the same time securing a greater 

 approximation to the original form of the ab- 

 sorbed parts, is of peculiar import, presenting as 

 it does to the tongue and lips the most acceptable 

 surface, at once strong, natural, and most cleanly. 

 For single or detached teeth in the lower jaw, 

 nothing can be more perfect, if at all equal to it. 

 In the great majority of such pieces, struck plates 

 are inadmissible, and bone in others only avail- 

 able ; but with this process all cases can be 

 accommodated; even in some of those where a 

 correct impression could not be obtained, owing 

 to the peculiar position of the teeth, by the facility 

 of soldering they have been made successful. 



In inserting pieces when the teeth are single or 

 separated, it often happens that one or more of 

 the teeth are found on completion to have been 

 misplaced or disturbed, so as to be out of their 

 desired situation in the mouth. For all processes 

 this is always a serious mistake; yet by this 

 method it is safely and perfectly corrected by 

 cutting off and soldering on again, requiring cer- 

 tainly not more than fifteen minutes, and this 

 done so neatly as to defy detection, without im- 

 pairing in the slightest degree its usefulness. 

 The great advantage it has, also, in lower sets, 

 where the alveolus is exceedingly narrow, is at 

 times quite indispensable, as it may occupy but 

 a few lines in breadth of the surface, and yet 

 possess as much or little weight as required with 



