M0019895: Three dental Instruments for extracting teeth

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Instruments for extracting teeth

Photograph of three dental instruments. From left to right: a version of Robertson's dental key; a steel tooth elevator; and an instrument for extracting teeth in a vertical direction. The elevator was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in Paris in 1928 and accessioned in 1932 (accession number R50866). The other two were acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1962 (accession numbers R208/1962 and R211/1962)

July 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R50866

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.