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Object Name |
Point, Dental |
Caption |
Wood dental points |
Description |
Ivory orange wood points for hand porte polisher in original box; contains 32 spoon shaped wood points. Manufacturer J.W. Ivory, Philidelphia PA, USA. Gray box, black print. Early dental-hygiene pioneers manually polished tooth surfaces until they glistened, with the slow deliberate strokes of their wooden points tightly secured in their porte polishers. Either a little dab of coarse, minty polish was scooped out of a big jar, or a homemade brew of pumice and mouthwash was blended in a dappen dish. Eventually, hygienists graduated to belt-driven, slow-speed handpieces. Prophy paste packaged in individual cups was a major breakthrough in the early 1970s. Finally, they were allowed to use air turbine handpieces fitted with right-angle-designed, all-metal prophy angles. |
Catalog Number |
2002-0266-007 |
Search Terms |
Dental supplies |
Subjects |
Dental equipment & supplies |