Take a collar . In the quotient, the two annuli are folded together by , while their common boundary curves become the boundary of a meridional disk. Because , the two halves of join across this disk and bound it. The quotient of the collar is therefore a solid torus whose meridian is attached along ; outside the collar nothing changes. Hence the annulus-quotient model of Dehn filling gives
Let and orient its filling core so that its longitude is . Then zero surgery on is the splice of and . Cutting the connected-sum exterior along its decomposing annulus and applying the annulus-quotient model of Dehn filling identifies with and with , which is exactly the splice gluing.