M0019897: Two dental instruments for extracting teeth

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Instrument for extracting teeth

Photograph of two dental instruments. On the left is a dental key with padded bolster, late 18th to early 19th century. On the right is a n early 19th century modified form of a dental key. The items were previously part of the Wellcome HIstorical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

July 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.