Mouth Props (3)
notes: label: Description
content: Willis J. Bickford (1854-1934), an American dentist “who included royalty among his dental patients,” designed these mouth props “to keep the mouth of a patient open while administering Gas, for the Extraction of Teeth, or any operation that requires the teeth kept apart.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for Bickford’s mouth props in The New England Journal of Dentistry 2 (1883).
label: Description
content: Willis J. Bickford, “Dental Jaw-Brace,” U.S. Patent 323,627 (Aug. 4, 1885).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Willis J. Bickford,” Boston Globe (June 24, 1934), p. A18.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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-08318
label: catalog number
content: M-08318
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mouth props
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 1 3/8 in x 2 1/4 in; .9525 cm x 3.4925 cm x 5.715 cm