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2. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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   As dental extractions can vary tremendously in difficulty, depending on the patient and the tooth, a wide variety of instruments exist to address specific situations. Rarely, tooth extraction was used as a method of torture, e.g. , to obtain forced confessions.

3. 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]

4. 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 ...

5. 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.

6. Dental key - Wikipedia

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   illustration demonstrating the use of the dental key for extracting teeth.. The dental key is an instrument that was used in dentistry to extract diseased teeth.Before the era of antibiotics, dental extraction was often the method of choice to treat dental infections, and extraction instruments date back several centuries.

7. Phony dentist, 70, busted for practicing out of her NY ... - AOL

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   Drawers were stuffed with apparently used dental instruments, as well as impression molds, extraction tools, tartar scrapers; and a large container was chock-full of empty vials of medication and ...