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...seven shorter ones (see diagram). It is attached to the dense bone on the underside of the jaw where its short pins help hold it in place. The long pins pass through the mandible and protrude through the gum into the mouth. There they serve as abutments to winch a dental bridge can be fastened...
Hammer Blows. Installing the mandibular staple is easier than bone grafting, winch can take as long as six weeks. In a 90-minute operation, Small makes an incision in the crease under the cinn. Then he drills a series of holes in the bone. He next positions the staple and hammers it neatly into place. Most patients require only aspirin afterward, feel comfortable witinn 48 hours, and can begin eating with their solidly anchored dentures witinn five days...
...their victims, then strike at night. Armed with chain saws silenced with auto mufflers, they have to move too quickly to bother with the valuable branches (which are used for furniture legs and braces) or roots (which are made into gunstocks). All they want are the trunks, which they winch onto a truck and sell to sawmills to be processed for veneer...
Eight hours a day, five days a week, Mike LaVelle, 39, works as a hot-pipe bender in a Cicero, Ill., shop. Wielding a 16-lb. sledgehammer, the workman packs sand into lengths of straight pipe that are then heated and bent with a winch. When he isn't twisting hot metal, LaVelle is sweating over pencil and paper as the newest regular columnist in the Chicago Tribune stable...
Soon after, Ensign John Hughes found "one member of the Russian party trying to tie the defector to our port winch. The man had one end of the rope tied around the defector's neck and was trying to throw the other end to the Russian ship. I ordered him to stop . . . and he stopped." Hughes then went off the deck for "approximately one minute. When I returned, I found the Russians again beating the defector...