- Gilmer splint
- a stainless steel wire fastening for holding the lower teeth to the upper ones in fracture of the mandible.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Gilmer splint
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Gilmer splint wiring — Gil·mer splint, wiring (gilґmər) [Thomas Lewis Gilmer, American oral surgeon, 1849–1931] see under splint and wiring … Medical dictionary
wiring — Fastening together the ends of a broken bone by wire sutures. circumferential w. fixation of mandibular fractures by passing wires around a section of bone and intraoral splint; i.e., circummandibular w.. SEE ALSO: circumzygomatic w..… … Medical dictionary
