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8o INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES —
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(e) Pliers. ''A kind of pinchers by which any small

object may be seized and bent"
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
Dressing Pliers are utilized for
carrying cotton for purposes of
swabbing, drying or medicating

cavities and pulp chambers. An-
other variety of pliers, known as
a foil carrier, is used for handling
gold, the beaks of some of these
being serrated, w^hen they are

known as plugging pliers. Cone-
socket pliers are used for tighten-
ing cone-socket instruments in the
handle.
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(f) Clamp. ''Something that
fastens or binds"—Webster's. A

flj ^^^ rubber dam clamp is a small steel
appliance to clamp the neck of the
tooth and hold the rubber dam in
' An
position (Figs. io8 and 109).
infinite variety of forms and sizes
have been designed for every con-
ceivable shape of tooth, although
the bicuspid and molar clamps are
most used. They are carried into
position by means of rubber dam

clamp forceps (Fig. no). The
''Ivory" and ''S. S. White" line
of clamps are the most prominent
varieties. A form known as the
„ ^ ^ , . , , ....
Fig. 108.—S. S. White rubber .
dam clamps for molars. The ivory CCrvical damp IS Utilized m CaSCS
clamps are practically of the same ^ ., . ^ r ,,
where is necessary to force the
form. it