Date of Award

6-1931

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Dentistry

Abstract

The gold inlay restoration has been used in dentistry for many years, the first ones being m~de by making a matrix of platinum or gold of about thirty-six to forty gauge in thickness, and then melting pure gold or solder of gold into the matrix. Many of these inlays are still doing good service after thirty to forty years of service. A great deal of skill and ingenuity was manifested in making many of these inlays, some of which were made hollow to afford better retention and to acquire a smaller amount of gold in the construction. In 1907 Dr. Taggart gave to the profession his invention of the cast gold inlay which was made by taking an impression or making a model in was and then investing the model, burning out the wax, and then forcibly flowing the gold into the mold. This method revolutionized the making of gold inlays and has since been so generally adopted by the profession that now a thesis on this subject of gold inlay presupposes the cast gold inlay, for the other methods have, passed into history and there is no need to present them in a thesis on this subject.

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...being a thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, Marquette University Dental School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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