Crossword-Solution: APPROXIMAL 10 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

Fillings were made by using mats, cylinders, tapes, and ropes, with hand-pressure, on the plan for manipulating non-cohesive gold foil, but it was difficult to insert a respectable approximal filling.

Thompson: "After several years' successful use of tin-gold, I commend it for approximal cavities, cervical margins, and frail walls.

After an approximal cavity is prepared, use a matrix held in place by wooden wedges; the cylinders are about one-eighth of an inch long, and condensed in two or three layers so as to secure perfect adaptation; hand pressure is principally used, but a few firm strokes with a hand mallet are useful.

There is nothing better for lining cavities, holding nerve-caps in position, holding a preparation in place when devitalizing a pulp where the tooth is so much broken away as to make it difficult to prevent a filling showing through the enamel, and for many other purposes." High-heat gutta-percha has been used as a base in deep occlusal, buccal, and approximal cavities, completing the fillings with tin.

The choice between contour fillings and separation of the teeth in the case of approximal cavities, must, I think, depend in a measure on the aptitude and judgment of the operator, since the two plans when successfully performed, may be made equally efficient.