Principles and practice of crown and bridgework : a practical, systematic and modern treatise upon the requirements and technique of artificial crown and bridgework / By Hart J. Goslee.

  • Goslee, Hart J., 1871-1930.
Date:
1913
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    Hence the efforts of the teacher will be enhanced by duly explaining all the older methods, together with the newer ones, thus leading the mind of the student to a better comprehension of the evolution which has taken place. And, moreover, if these older methods should be entirely cast out of the literature, it is possible that in the not distant future they might be brought forward again as new. It is, therefore, gratifying to the author that the second edition should have been exhausted at a time when the possibilities for improve- ment are so conspicuously apparent, and becoming so generally recognized; and when the addition of a chapter embracing the application of the casting process is so essential to a modern consideration of the subject. In presenting the third edition the author has made every effort to emphasize the splendid achievements and far-reaching possibilities of this process as applied to crown and bridgework; to encourage and stimulate an appreciation of them, and by such addition, together with a careful revision of the former editions, to keep the work up to the systematic standard and high ideals which have heretofore directed his eft'orts and been his chief ambition. Hart J. Goslee. Chicago, 111., August 22, 1910. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION. The appearance of the fourth edition at this time becomes necessary because former editions have been exhausted. This is gratifying to the author for the reason that it enables him to keep the book up to the very latest moment, which has always been one of his ambitions, and which is necessary in these days of rapid progress and advancement. It is also gratifying because it bespeaks an appreciation on the part of prac- titioners, teachers and students which is encouraging. The addition of the more modern methods of removable bridge- work, and of the author's own methods and technic of crown construc- tion, indicate the extent to which the casting process, together with other contriljutory improvements, has revolutionized our methods of practice, all of which was prophesied from the very advent of this process. With these improvements former empirical methods have been sup- planted to such an extent as to make it possible to practice artificial crown and bridgework along more or less definite and systematic lines, and it is hoped that the full possibilities of the present day will be grasped and applied, and that more system and method in this line of work will be cultivated and developed. Hart J. Goslee. Chicago, March 4, 1913.