Sentence examples for took an impression from inspiring English sources

To make Tovah's mold, I took an impression of her face — the same way a dentist uses that jellylike stuff to make a mold of your teeth — but there's this special kind that's used for prosthetics, for people missing arms and legs.

Edinburgh Rugby's club dentist took an impression mould of his right 'cauliflower' ear, which will be used to create the trophy.

Some ocularists take an impression of the socket with alginate, a molding material used in making impressions of teeth.

He usually can, for lack of a better word, eyeball the dimensions of the socket they need to fill, creating an eye without taking an impression.

"We'll take an impression of your teeth, and the fangs will be pre-carved to the mold," Ms. Saige said.

While many other kinds of hearing aids require taking an impression of the ear and having the patient return weeks later, the new device does not.

Later analysis of the material indicated that it was a glass of high lead content, readily fusible, and capable of taking an impression from a mold or matrix upon attaining a pasty consistency.

Our designers put a block of clay on every single one of our staff members' desks (there's about 60 of us) and demanded that we go home and take an impression of the inside rim of our toilet bowls.

The standard crown procedure involves a couple of anesthetized hours during which the dentist drills away 30percentt of a tooth, takes an impression and cements on a temporary crown.

Until the development of optical instruments that could measure the curvature of the cornea (the transparent surface of the eye that covers the iris and the pupil), the contact lens was made by taking an impression of the eye and fashioning a lens on a mold.

"Conventional maxillofacial prosthetics are incredibly laborious and expensive to produce," says Fripp. "You have to take an impression from the area of trauma, cast a plaster positive, then make a mould, carve the desired form in wax, and cast it in silicone.