Restorative Art

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Restorative Art

• Introduction and Orientation

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Restorative Art

• Mayer page 501
• care of the deceased to recreate natural form
  and color
• 4 objectives
• 1) ease psychological effect on the family
• 2) make good public relations for the firm
• 3) lessen morbid curiosity of the public
• 4) professional responsibility

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Anatomical Position

• Klicker page 14
• the body is erect, feet together, palms facing
  forward, and thumbs pointed away from the body
• Terms of Form, Position and Direction
• Left and right are also in reference to the
  decedents left and right.

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Terms (contd)

• Anterior and Posterior
• Superior and Inferior
• Medial and Lateral
• Bilateral
• Frontal and Profile
• Planes median, horizontal, oblique, surface
• Projection and Recession

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Terms (contd)

• Depression and Protrusion
• Concave/Concavity and Convex/Convexity
• Inclination
• Symmetry and Asymmetry
• Physiognomy
• Norm

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Classes of Cases Requiring Restoration

• Klicker page 81 and Mayer page 505
• 1) Injuries
• 2) Disease (Pathological)
• 3) Post-mortem Tissue Changes
• 4) Embalming
• Conservative Approach (Mayer page 501)

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Types of Restoration

• Klicker page 9
• Minor Restoration requiring minimum effort,
  skill, or time to complete
• Major Restoration those requiring a long
  period of time, are extensive, require advanced
  technical skill, and expressed written consent to
  perform

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• Obtain written permission from the family before
  doing any restoration that requires incisions,
  excisions or anything that may be considered a
  mutiliation!!

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Time-table of Restorative Treatments

• Klicker page 81 and Mayer page 507
• Pre-embalming Treatments
• Embalming Treatments
• Post-embalming Treatments

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Ethnic Characteristics

• Klicker page 12
• White/European/Caucasian/Caucasoid
• Black/African/Negroid
• Yellow/Asiatic/Mongoloid

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Geometric Form of the Normal Skull

• Klicker page 12
• Oval with one end broader than the other.
• Greatest width is compared with greatest length.
• Greatest width 2/3 the length

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Types of Skull

• Infant facial portion is 1/8 the cranial area
• underdeveloped upper and lower jaw
• absence of teeth
• birth to 7 years rapid growth
• 7 years to puberty slow growth
• puberty significant growth
• 22 years sutures ossify

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Adult Skull

• Facial portion ½ size cranial area
• Male and female develop similarly until puberty
• Female lighter and smaller
• cranial capacity 10 less
• walls thinner and smoother
• upper and lower jaws smaller
• infantine characteristics

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Aging

• reduction of size of upper and lower jaws due to
  the loss of teeth
• reduction in size of alveolar processes
• reduction in vertical length of the face and an
  alteration in the angle of the jaw