Forceps
date: label: date made
content: 1836-1855
name: label: maker
content: Morson, Charles E.
notes: label: Description
content: This pair of steel forceps has a straight beak for the removal of the front teeth, incisors and bicuspids. The basic shape of dental forceps has not changed radically in over one hundred-fifty years. Harris notes in the Dictionary of Dental Science, "they [forceps] have, since about 1830, been rapidly taking the place of the [tooth] key of Garengeot, in all its improved and modified forms".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Dentistry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Suzanne Parmly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0248.12
label: accession number
content: 2014.0248
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0248.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental instrument, forceps
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.3 cm x 3.5 cm x 18.3 cm; 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in x 7 7/32 in