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164 HISTOItY OF DENTAL SURGERY

Altlioiigli those I have named woukl in general answer the purpose, * * *
if the dentist were possessed of no other varieties for this purpose he would
he Init indifferently supplied. The convenience of having instruments for tlie
light and left sides of the mouth will, I think, he obvious. It is, I believe a
new method. I have never seen it in use, nor heard of its being employed

Some of Snell 's Extracting Instruments, 1831.

either for removing tartar or for extracting teeth. Althougli I lay a claim to
the invention of these right and left hand instruments, I do so * * *
with the admission that althotigh T may never have seen or heard of such in-
struments, * * * it is not improbable they may have been already intro-
duced.''
'I'he dentist should possess, first, a perfect set of instruments, of every shape
and ( in-\c, for the proper removal of caries, however awkward the situation of
tlic apcrUirc: next, instruments of every variety of curve at the neck or
slK)u] tion with the gold when it is pressed into the tooth; and lastly an assortment
of burnishers of dift'erent shapes, to finish the operation, by polishing the
surface of the gold plug, and detaching any ragged portions."