Dental Plate and Teeth
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for John Johnson, “Improvement in Dentistry,” U.S. Patent 43,588 (July 19, 1864). Johnson lived in Saco, Me. His patent described an improvement in “the mode of making the metallic case or plate to which the teeth are attached.”
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.291116.044
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.044
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dentures
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 5.715 cm x 4.445 cm