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Restorative Art
Introduction and Orientation
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
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
decedent’s left and right.
Terms (cont’d)
Anterior
and Posterior
Superior and Inferior
Medial and Lateral
Bilateral
Frontal and Profile
Planes: median, horizontal, oblique,
surface
Projection and Recession
Terms (cont’d)
Depression
and Protrusion
Concave/Concavity and Convex/Convexity
Inclination
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Physiognomy
Norm
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)
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”
Written Permission
Obtain
written permission from the family
before doing any restoration that requires
incisions, excisions or anything that may
be considered a mutiliation!!
Time-table of Restorative
Treatments
Klicker
page 81 and Mayer page 507
Pre-embalming Treatments
Embalming
Treatments
Post-embalming
Treatments
Ethnic Characteristics
Klicker
page 12
White/European/Caucasian/Caucasoid
Black/African/Negroid
Yellow/Asiatic/Mongoloid
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
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
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
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