15.09.11
Dr. Stan Harn glances over his spread of primal dental tools
and grabs a T-shaped metal agency with a hook on one end.
This, he explains, is a turnkey. It looks like, and may have
inspired, the new-day basin wrench. The metal hook goes into a
unfaltering's mouth and latches onto a damaged tooth. The dentist
clutches the cope with and twists. Turn too hard and patients could --
and sometimes did -- admit defeat a piece of jaw.
"You can see the amount of torque it generates," Harn said. "It
was rude."
The turnkey is arguably the most cringe-inducing cat's-paw in a
University of Nebraska Medical Center omnium gatherum that includes
foot-powered drills, wartime dental chairs and X-ray machines with
exposed wiring. The College of Dentistry will show off such tools
at its unchained, once-a-year museum that will be open through Saturday
in Lincoln.
Harn, the curator and an said biology professor, has spent more
than three decades collecting dental record -- remnants of a time
when the profession was simpler, with less omission and more pain.
The journey has taken him to dusty cellars, licentious barns, antique
shops and flea markets. One dental council came from a prison.
Source: Lincoln Journal Star