Dr. Ralph and Mrs. Olga Crawford Canadian Dental Collection
Category
Dental
Dental instruments
Classification
Dental
Dental Instruments
Accession Number
010020511
Description
Dental elevator with light brown wooden turned handle that tapers towards a silver metal shaft; the shaft tapers and bends towards the proper right side forming an L and comes to a square point.
Dental elevator with light brown wooden turned handle that tapers towards a silver metal shaft; the shaft tapers and bends towards the proper right side forming an L and comes to a square point.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Transfer from the Dental Canada Fund; previously housed in the Dentistry Canada Museum (Ottawa)
Handle shows signs of wear; metal is tarnished; metal band is missing where the wood handle joins the shaft.
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Book
Internet
Reference Comments
"The American Heritage Medical Dictionary" website; "S.S. White Dental Catalog, Catalog-D," S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co., 1916, p. 15 (similar to model #20A)
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; an elevator was used by dentist to remove teeth or parts of teeth that could not be gripped by a forceps, or it could be used to loosen teeth and roots before using a forceps; the S.S. White Dental Mfg. Co. first began as a tooth factory in 1844