Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Classification
Dental
Accession Number
010020295
Description
Silver metal dental root elevator; tapering cylindrical body curves slightly near bottom; triangular tip; rectangular handle, with angled edges, at top perpendicular to body; etched cross-pattern in middle of handle for grip; each cylindrical end of the handle flares out, with two decorative circle…
Silver metal dental root elevator; tapering cylindrical body curves slightly near bottom; triangular tip; rectangular handle, with angled edges, at top perpendicular to body; etched cross-pattern in middle of handle for grip; each cylindrical end of the handle flares out, with two decorative circles in middle
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
“S.S. White Dental Catalog, Catalog-D”, S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co., 1916, p. 16 (similar to model #27C); "The Finest Instruments Ever Made", Audrey B. Davis and Mark S. Dreyfuss, 1986, p. 95
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; this item's tip most resembles Cryer's universal root elevator, but most examples show a straight handle, not one that is perpendicular to the tip, as this item has; Clev-Dent was established in 1896