FRACTURES OF JAW
NEW METHOD OF CURE
EVOLVED BY NEW ZEALANDER
LONDON, August 17
The "Daily Telegraph" says that Goternment surgical centres are using and developing a remarkable new method of treating jaw fractures, enabling the patient to move the part freely and painlessly within twentyfour hours of the fracture being set. The method involves the use of steel pins implanted in the 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 obviates weeks of immobility. The treatment was evolved by the famous New Zealand plastic surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, in conjunction with an American orthopaedic surgeon. Leading dentists express the opinion that it may prove the most notable dental development of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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