Images from the Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry of the Hartford Medical and the Hartford Dental Societies.
Toothkeys of assorted types: one in holster, 1750, hand forged of iron, others have handles of ivory, wood, ebony and bone and have a swivel in the claw section to grasp the tooth.
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