Word: vitallium
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...restore contours of a nose or ear, the best material is cartilage from the breastbone. Living or preserved cartilage can be used, cut to shape or even diced. Best material for filling out bones in the face is the porous bone from the top of the hip. Tantalum or vitallium plates serve for skull injuries...
...insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end of the peg. But he never dared to do it, for he knew metal pegs might induce mouth irritation. Two years ago Dr. Strock decided to try the new alloy, vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Dr. Strock told how he used inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into the gaping socket of a willing patient, who was first given a local anesthetic...
...date Dr. Strock has tried his vitallium pegs out on eleven patients. How long the teeth will stay put, cautious Dr. Strock would not say, but he remarked that one patient has been using his tooth for a year and a half...