Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020220
Description
Unopened box of dental burs; rectangular white paper box printed with red ink and covered with clear plastic wrapping; label states product, size, manufacturing information; box has six silver metal burs visible inside through semi-circle cut-out at front centre of box; thin cylinders with sharp ed…
Unopened box of dental burs; rectangular white paper box printed with red ink and covered with clear plastic wrapping; label states product, size, manufacturing information; box has six silver metal burs visible inside through semi-circle cut-out at front centre of box; thin cylinders with sharp edges curving around tips.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Printed on label at front: "Revelation // Burs // STRAIGHT HANDPIECE"; printed on back: "6 REVELATION BURS // The S.S. White // Dental Mfg. Co. // Philadelphia, Pa."; printed at side: "MADE IN U.S.A."; printed at top: "6 NO. 559"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 0010
0010- Diagnostic & Treatment Artifacts
Dimension Notes
Length 4.6 cm x Width 2.3 cm x Depth 0.5 cm
Condition Remarks
Plastic wrapping is brittle, coming apart in places
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Reference Comments
“S.S. White Dental Catalog, Catalog-B”, S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co., 1916, p. 32 (model #559)
Research Facts
Dr Ralph and Mrs Olga Crawford donated their extensive Canadian dental collection to the DCF to create the museum in 1997; further donations were received while Dr Crawford was Curator Emeritus at the Dental Canada Museum until its closure in 2008; these are fissure, flat-end dentate burs, used to cut enamel