Dental Coffer Dam Clamp
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Clarkson Bancroft, “Dental Coffer Dam Clamps,” U.S. Patent 151,265 (May 26, 1874), assigned to the Samuel S. White of Philadelphia. The clamp was designed to hold a patient’s tongue away from the tooth being operated on. Clarkson Bancroft lived in Brooklyn, N.Y.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.184
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.184
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: clamp, coffer, dam, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1/2 in x 3 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.27 cm x 7.62 cm x 8.255 cm