Dental Plate
notes: label: Description
content: This may be the patent model for Asa Hill, “Improved Composition Dental Plate,” U.S. Patent 93086 (July 27, 1869). Asa Hill (1816-1874) was a graduate of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, the first president of the Connecticut Dental Association, a resident of Norwalk, Ct., and the inventor of Hill’s Stopping, a plastic material for temporary fillings.
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.058.01
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.0059.01
label: catalog number
content: 29116.058.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental plate
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 3.81 cm x 4.445 cm