Dental Key
notes: label: Description
content: Tooth key with steel shaft and wood handle.
label: Description
content: Ref: “The tooth key is an instrument found in the hands of almost every body who pretends even to the lowest degree of skill in the healing art; and there is perhaps scarcely a day passing, in which teeth are not broken, and jaws splintered, and gums bruised even to sloughing, by the unskillful or awkward use of it.” N. Arnott, Elements of Physics (London, 1827), quoted in The London Medical and Physical Journal 58 (1827): 235.
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: ZZ.RSN82807U05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: extraction key
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 3 5/8 in; 13.335 cm x 9.2075 cm