Airdent
notes: label: Description
content: The Airdent, the first commercially available air abrasion dental device, was invented by Dr. Robert B. Black, a dentist in Corpus Christie, Tx., and introduced in 1951 by the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. This example was given to the Museum in 1982.
label: Description
content: Ref: “How They Sandblast Teeth,” Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine (Feb. 1952): 46.
label: Description
content: J. Tim Rainy, “Air abrasion: an emerging standard of care in conservative operative dentistry,” The Dental Clinics of North America 46 (2002): 185-209.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0637.01
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0637.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Apparatus, Sandblasting
label: Other Terms
content: Apparatus, Sandblasting; Medicine