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Dental assistants

Images

  • A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.
  • A tooth-drawer proudly holding up a tooth he has just extracted, the patient holding his face sulks in the background. Lithograph by Madame Fabroni after D. Teniers II.
  • A tooth-drawer in his establishment feeling the tooth of a bemused female patient, his assistant holds the pincers in readiness for extraction. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1823.
  • A dentist telling off his black assistant for not extracting a tooth, the assistant retorts that instead of the tooth he got the patients's watch and pocket book. Process print after G.E. Studdy.
  • Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Final report on the experimental scheme for the training and employment of dental auxiliaries.

    General Dental Council (Great Britain) | Date: [1966]
    • Pictures

    Monkeys representing human beings in a tooth-drawer's surgery. Lithograph by L. Haghe after E. Bristow, 1828.

    Bristow, Edmund, 1787-1876. | Date: 1 February 1828 | Reference: 16677i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A patient paying a dentist after having a tooth removed with gas. Reproduction of a drawing after L.P. Dowd, 1922.

    Dowd, Leonard P, active 1922. | Date: 1922 | Reference: 15506i
    • Books

    Introduction to dental nursing / Gwendolen Brereton.

    Brereton, Gwendolen. | Date: 1968
    • Books
    • Online

    Handbook for Royal Naval dental surgery attendants.

    Great Britain. Admiralty. | Date: 1949
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