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2. Dental key - Wikipedia

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   The dental key, (also known as Clef de Garengeot, Fothergill-Key, English-Key, Dimppel Extractor or Tooth Key) was first mentioned in Alexander Monro's Medical Essays and Observations in 1742, but had probably been in use since around 1730. It remained popular into the 20th century when it was replaced by the more modern forceps.

3. Coupland's elevators - Wikipedia

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   There are three sizes usually used sequentially for dental extraction. Coupland's elevators (also known as chisels ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] are instruments commonly used for dental extraction . They are used in sets of three each of increasing size and are used to split multi-rooted teeth and are inserted between the bone and tooth roots and rotated to ...

4. Elevator (dental) - Wikipedia

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   Coupland's Elevators. Elevators (also known as luxators) are instruments used in dental extractions.They may be used to loosen teeth prior to forceps extraction, to remove roots or impacted teeth, when teeth are compromised and susceptible to fracture or when they are malpositioned and cannot be reached with forceps.

5. Dental instrument - Wikipedia

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   Then, a pair of pincers would do the rest of the job, wiggling the tooth out of the gum until the extraction was complete. [8] The functionality of today's dental forceps come from the need to remove items from the mouth such as the cotton balls dentists place next to a patient's teeth or the rubber bands a patient needs for their braces. [9]

6. List of instruments used in otorhinolaryngology, head and ...

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   •Hunter Tod's forceps: for use in the ear canal •Fagge's aural forceps: for use in the ear canal •Waugh's long dissecting forceps: used for dissection like on the tonsils, also to catch bleeding points and putting in swabs •Wilson's tonsil artery forceps: as a haemostat ( same as Negus ) •Negus tonsil artery forceps

7. Dental drill - Wikipedia

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   Air turbine used in a dental handpiece Correlation between rotational speed and torque Correlation between rotational speed and turbine output power. The turbine is powered by compressed air between 35 and 61 pounds per square inch (~2,4 to 4,2 bar), [1] [2] which passes up the centre of the instrument and rotates a Pelton wheel in the head of the handpiece.

8. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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   Typically the tooth is lifted using an elevator, and using dental forceps, specific tooth movements are performed (e.g. rocking the tooth back and forth) expanding the tooth socket. Once the periodontal ligament is broken and the supporting alveolar bone has been adequately widened the tooth can be removed.

9. Surgical instrument - Wikipedia

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   Graspers, such as forceps (non-locking forceps/ grasping forceps, thumb forceps, pick-ups) [21] Used for tissue or object grasping. Forceps are categorized into toothed or non-toothed at the tip. [21] (e.g.,Tissue forceps, Adson forceps, Bonney forceps, DeBakey forceps, Russian forceps) [21] Clamps (locking forceps)