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The Toothkey - Misguided Development or Instrument for Universal Application?
1Founding member of "Arbeitskreis für die Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde" - chapter of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zahn-Mund und Kieferheilkunde - DGZMK (German Society of the History of Dentistry).
Abstract:
The dental toothkey is a dental instrument, that established from the second third of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century as a standard instrument in dentistry for the extraction of upper and lower jaw molar teeth. Was the toothkey - in the context of its use and the alternatives available to it, an efficient and medically reasonable instrument, or is there a mismatch between hoped therapeutic benefits and expected iatrogenic damage caused by its use, which do not represent medical ethics?
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