Operative treatment of single harelip (_see_ Harelip, operations for single) Os incisivum, dentition of, 54, 62 description of, 61 position of, in double harelip, 3 Os incisivum, treatment of— extirpation (Franco), 92 extirpation _v._ reposition, 95 fixation of, after reposition, 95 forcible repression (Gensoul), 93 gradual repression (Desault), 93 reposition after division of septum (Blandin, Bardeleben, Butcher), 94 Osteoplasty, Fergusson’s operation, 133 Mason’s modification, 133 reasons for discontinuance, 133 P. Palate, acquired apertures in, 144, 154 cleft (_see_ Cleft palate) development of, 40, 43 hard (_see_ Hard palate) processes, 40 soft (_see_ Soft palate) PASSAVANT on narrowing of cleft palate, 73 Period for operation on cleft palate, 101 on harelip, 72 Philtrum, 62 treatment of, 98 Phonation in cleft palate, 35 Pins, use of, in harelip, 81 POLLOCK, method of dividing levator, 126 on cleft palate, 64 Position of patient in operation for cleft palate, 104 for harelip, 77 Preparation of patient in operations for cleft palate, 103 for harelip, 76 Prevention of V-notch, 79 Prolabium, formation of, 79 R. Raspatories for palate operations, 110 Reposition of os incisivum (_see_ Os incisivum), 93 ROSE (E.), position in palate operations, 104 ROSE (W.), gag, 109 operation for double harelip, 98 single harelip, 81 S. Secondary operation for closing fistulas in palate, 131 prominence of lower lip, 97, 148 reducing size of columna, 148 tension of united velum, 149 V-notches, 147 possibility of, after sloughing, 138 SÉDILLOT, operation for double harelip, 99 Shape of hard palate, after uranoplasty, 151 normal, 32 SMITH (T.), direct method of suturing palate, 123 gag, 108 modification of uranoplasty, 134 needle for palate operations, 124 operation for double harelip, 100 Soft palate, functions of, 34 muscles of, 28 methods of division of, 125, 126 vascular supply of, 31 Stages in operation for cleft palate, 116 harelip, 77 Staphylo-pharyngoraphy, 137 Staphyloplasty, 137 Staphyloraphy, 126 Statistics of early operations for cleft palate, unfavorable, 101 operations for harelip, 74 STOKES’S operation for single harelip, 89 SUTTON on median harelip, 13 Sutures, direct method of passing, 123 loop-method of passing, 121 materials employed for, in lip operations, 83 in palatal operations, 113 method employed for adjusting, in double harelip, 99 single harelip, 83 period of removal of, after lip operations, 84 after palate operations, 129 Syphilitic affections of hard palate, 156 velum, 155 treatment of, 156 T. Taste, improvement of, after closure of cleft palate, 150 in cleft palate, 71