Murray Margaret, Pappas Theodore N, Powers David B
Department of Family and Community Medicine, East Virginia Medical School, Norfolk Virginia.
Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
Surg J (N Y). 2019 Dec 2;6(1):e1-e6. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-3400537. eCollection 2020 Jan.
In the summer of 1893, President Grover Cleveland discovered a mass on the roof of his mouth. Two physicians examined it, determined that it was a neoplasm, and recommended resection. In an effort to avoid revealing the illness to the public, the President and his doctors boarded a yacht on July 1 1893, where the surgeons resected the affected portion of his maxilla and several teeth under an ether anesthetic. Afterward, Kasson C. Gibson, a New York dentist, created a rubber obturator, which was placed in the surgical defect in the maxilla and restored the President's facial contour and speech. Due to the precise reconstruction with the rubber appliance crafted by Gibson, the President lived the rest of his public life without facial or speech abnormality. This article will review the details of the work of Kasson Gibson and the President's maxillary prosthesis.
1893年夏天，格罗弗·克利夫兰总统发现自己上颚有个肿块。两位医生对其进行了检查，确定这是一个肿瘤，并建议进行切除手术。为了避免向公众透露病情，总统和他的医生于1893年7月1日登上了一艘游艇，外科医生在那里用乙醚麻醉，切除了他上颌的患病部分和几颗牙齿。后来，纽约牙医卡森·C·吉布森制作了一个橡胶阻塞器，将其放置在上颌的手术缺损处，恢复了总统的面部轮廓和说话能力。由于吉布森精心制作的橡胶器具进行了精确的重建，总统在其余生的公众生活中没有出现面部或言语异常。本文将回顾卡森·吉布森的工作细节以及总统的上颌假体。
