Essig splint

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Essig splints

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[Norman S. Essig, DDS, Prof. of Prosthodontics, Temple University School of Dentistry]
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Essig CJ, ed. The American textbook of prosthetic dentistry. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers and Co., 1896:187, 208.
Essig NS. Prosthetic dentistry. Brooklyn: Dental Items of Interest Publishing Co., 1937.

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Eponym for a stainless steel wire passed labially and lingually around a segment of the dental arch and held in position by individual ligature wires around the contact areas of the teeth; it is used to stabilize fractured or repositioned teeth and the involved alveolar bone. Variously ascribed to V. H. Jackson, DDS, (N.Y.), C. J. Essig, DDS, N. S. Essig, DDS (Pa.), or W. H. Atkinson, DDS