Comments on: Gnathograph http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DancingSamurai.ca | Miscellaneous Web Stories http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-1062960 DancingSamurai.ca | Miscellaneous Web Stories Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:38:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-1062960 [...] one for my significant other: A gnathograph, some sort of weird tooth-measuring instrument from the 30s. Looks like something out of a [...] [...] one for my significant other: A gnathograph, some sort of weird tooth-measuring instrument from the 30s. Looks like something out of a [...]

]]> By: Long long time ago… at http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-13918 Long long time ago… at Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:41:35 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-13918 [...] Vielleicht sollte ich mit den täglichen Links weitermachen: Fundsachen von der “Zeit” (Die Zeitung, ihr wisst schon.), die graben immer ganz lustige Dinger aus dem Netz aus, sowas muss man an ner Uni studiert haben. Sowas wie den “Gnatographen”. Wer sich an Loituma erinnert, der wird das hier vielleicht auch mögen, ein gewisser Hang zur Sinnfreiheit vorrausgesetzt. A propos sinnfrei…und ich mein vollkommen sinnfrei: *klick*. Und noch was sinnloses, für den bösen Mann / für die böse Frau: Schwarzes Klopapier! Letztendlich noch Cute Overload… [...] [...] Vielleicht sollte ich mit den täglichen Links weitermachen: Fundsachen von der “Zeit” (Die Zeitung, ihr wisst schon.), die graben immer ganz lustige Dinger aus dem Netz aus, sowas muss man an ner Uni studiert haben. Sowas wie den “Gnatographen”. Wer sich an Loituma erinnert, der wird das hier vielleicht auch mögen, ein gewisser Hang zur Sinnfreiheit vorrausgesetzt. A propos sinnfrei…und ich mein vollkommen sinnfrei: *klick*. Und noch was sinnloses, für den bösen Mann / für die böse Frau: Schwarzes Klopapier! Letztendlich noch Cute Overload… [...]

]]> By: Another Storm http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-9791 Another Storm Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:45:59 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-9791 <strong>Dentist, anyone?...</strong> Gnathograph (June, 1939) Amazing the contraptions that have been built in the name of medical advancement. Apparently, this little Clockwork Orange-like gizmo helped the denist to fit dentures “more comfortably”. I think I speak for ever... Dentist, anyone?…

Gnathograph (June, 1939)
Amazing the contraptions that have been built in the name of medical advancement. Apparently, this little Clockwork Orange-like gizmo helped the denist to fit dentures “more comfortably”. I think I speak for ever…

]]> By: Net Crap (9/1) at Musings of a Chicagoan http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-9722 Net Crap (9/1) at Musings of a Chicagoan Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:22:30 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-9722 [...] The gnathograph … the most hideous-looking dental contraption known to man. (tags: horrifying photos) [...] [...] The gnathograph … the most hideous-looking dental contraption known to man. (tags: horrifying photos) [...]

]]> By: FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Dentistry Today Watch: Gnathology of Yesterday http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-9671 FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Dentistry Today Watch: Gnathology of Yesterday Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:53:25 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-9671 [...] Medgadget: Bite Down on the Gnathograph Boing Boing points us to an amazing website of past technology, called Modern Mechanix (”Yesterday’s tomorrow, today!”) and a scary dental device (isn’t that redundant) known as the gnathograph: WITH the aid of the “gnathograph,” an instrument as mouth-filling as its name, a dentist’s patients may now be assured of a perfect fit for artificial teeth. Fitted to the jaws as shown above, the new device registers the arrangement of the teeth and the direction of the “bite,” to guide the dentist in straightening teeth or fitting inlays, crowns, bridges, and plates. Its inventor, Dr. Beverly B. McCollum of Los Angeles, Calif., demonstrates in the picture at the right how the instrument is then mounted for use in tooling a plate to just the right shape to give the most comfortable fit in the mouth. We’re not tooth experts, but we think dentists today accomplish similar measurements with soft alginate molds. Alginate, of course, is also used in cake frosting. This, dear readers, is progress… [...] [...] Medgadget: Bite Down on the Gnathograph Boing Boing points us to an amazing website of past technology, called Modern Mechanix (”Yesterday’s tomorrow, today!”) and a scary dental device (isn’t that redundant) known as the gnathograph: WITH the aid of the “gnathograph,” an instrument as mouth-filling as its name, a dentist’s patients may now be assured of a perfect fit for artificial teeth. Fitted to the jaws as shown above, the new device registers the arrangement of the teeth and the direction of the “bite,” to guide the dentist in straightening teeth or fitting inlays, crowns, bridges, and plates. Its inventor, Dr. Beverly B. McCollum of Los Angeles, Calif., demonstrates in the picture at the right how the instrument is then mounted for use in tooling a plate to just the right shape to give the most comfortable fit in the mouth. We’re not tooth experts, but we think dentists today accomplish similar measurements with soft alginate molds. Alginate, of course, is also used in cake frosting. This, dear readers, is progress… [...]

]]> By: Boing Boing http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/comment-page-1/#comment-9576 Boing Boing Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:06:08 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/08/30/gnathograph/#comment-9576 <strong>Nightmare dental instrument from 1939...</strong> Amazing to think that the gnathograph, which looks about as comfortable as Clockwork Orange's crazy eye-opener device but for your teeth, was ever considered a good idea. But there it is, in the June, 1939 ish of Popular Science. WITH the aid of the ... Nightmare dental instrument from 1939…

Amazing to think that the gnathograph, which looks about as comfortable as Clockwork Orange’s crazy eye-opener device but for your teeth, was ever considered a good idea. But there it is, in the June, 1939 ish of Popular Science. WITH the aid of the …

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