Dental Forceps
notes: label: Description
content: Simon P. Hullihen (1810-1857), a physician who became the first dental surgeon in the United States, introduced this type of dental forceps with screw in the 1840s. Hullihen lived in Wheeling, Virginia (later West Virginia).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08663
label: catalog number
content: M-08663
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental extraction
label: Object Name
content: forceps, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 7 in; x 3.4925 cm x 17.78 cm