Dental Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: The Samuel S. White Co. was offering forceps of this sort by 1877, explaining that they were for use with a steno compressor, and “the pattern was furnished to us by Dr. Rich.” A steno compressor was used to compress the ducts of the parotid gland, in order to keep back the saliva during dental operations. John B. Rich (1811-1910) was a dentist in New York.
label: Description
content: Ref: Samuel S. White, Catalogue of Dental Materials (Philadelphia, 1877) p. 171.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09562
label: accession number
content: 232230
label: catalog number
content: M-09562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Forceps
label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Forceps; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; x 8.255 cm x 15.875 cm