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Dental key - Clef de Garengeot - WAHL NANCY - 19th century

€130.00

Clef de Garengeot - Dental key - German key

Marked WAHL Nancy 

In use from the 19th century to the 1930s

Description

Clef de Garengeot - Dental key - German key

Marked WAHL Nancy 

In use from the 19th century to the 1930s

Chrome-plated metal wrench with interchangeable screw hook

An instrument for extracting molars by torsion-traction, often used for its ease by dentists, but much decried in the 19th century for the havoc it could wreak by pulling out pieces of gum, fractured teeth etc...

The tooth trapped between a hook and a bit could not withstand the twisting movement of the operator, similar to that made when opening a lock, hence the name of the instrument, which sometimes removed a piece of jawbone with the tooth...

Length 14cm 

For more information on the Garengeot keys: clef de Garengeot

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