Improved forceps for the use of dentists / [Cyrus Fay].

  • Fay, Cyrus.
Date:
[1826]
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Credit: Improved forceps for the use of dentists / [Cyrus Fay]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. XXII. IMPROVED FORCEPS FOR THE USE OF DENTISTS. The Large Silver Medal was this session presented to Mr. Cyrus {Fay, 7, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, for his improved Forceps for the use of Dentists. The fol¬ lowing communication was received from him on the subject, and a set of the Forceps has been placed in the Society’s repository. Sir, H aving early in my professional career felt the greatest inconvenience from the imperfections of the instruments usually employed for the extraction of teeth, I was induced to prepare others more accurately adapted to their figure. From an attentive consideration of their structure, I was soon convinced that the neck of the tooth was the only part on which the necessary force could be applied with the greatest safety and advantage. Now as the teeth do not all present the same arrangement of parts, it follows that the figure of their necks must also vary ; of this fact every anatomist must be convinced. I state nothing new when I say that there are certain teeth formed very much alike, both in the upper and lower jaw, and that of the teeth .thus similar to each other there are various classes,