Forceps
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- Description
- This pair of steel forceps has a straight beak for the removal of the front teeth, incisors and bicuspids. The basic shape of dental forceps has not changed radically in over one hundred-fifty years. Harris notes in the Dictionary of Dental Science, "they [forceps] have, since about 1830, been rapidly taking the place of the [tooth] key of Garengeot, in all its improved and modified forms".
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- dental instrument, forceps
- date made
- 1836-1855
- maker
- Morson, Charles E.
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- Measurements
- overall: 1.3 cm x 3.5 cm x 18.3 cm; 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in x 7 7/32 in
- ID Number
- 2014.0248.12
- accession number
- 2014.0248
- catalog number
- 2014.0248.12
- Credit Line
- Suzanne Parmly
- subject
- Dentistry
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- Medicine and Science: Dentistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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