FRACTURES OF THE JAW
NEW METHOD OF TREATMENT
(8.0. W.) RUGBY, August 17, A remarkable new method of treating fractures of the jaw enables the patient to move his jaw freely and painlessly within 24 hours of the fracture being set. The method involves the use of steel pins implanted in Ane jaw on each side of the fracture. The two ends of the. fracture are brought into position and held by an ingenious arrangement of stainless steel bars and movable nuts. . The process inflicts no. pain and avoids weeks of immobility. The treatment has been evolved by Sir Harold Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon, in conjunction,with an American orthopaedic surgeon. Leading dentists express the opinion that it may prove the most notable dental development of the war. . Sir Harold Gillies was born in Dunedin and attended the Wanganui Collegiate School before going to Cambridge. He is plastic surgeon to a number of well-known hospitals in Britain. ,
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 3
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