Holder, x-ray film
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- OBJECT TYPE
- WOOD/UPPER MOLAR
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1984.1229.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Cleveland Dental Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- BITE-BLOCK
- LOCATION
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- The bite blocks are made of wood/the boxes are made of cardboard.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 10.8 cm
- Width
- 4.5 cm
- Height
- 1.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Medical Technology
- Category
- Radiology
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Cleveland
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Ohio
- City
- Cleveland
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
These blocks were used to hold x-ray dental film in the proper position for x-ray. Patients held them with their teeth. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1-.2: '10/Upper Molar, Wood Bite-Block/Dental Film Holder/For Modified Distance Technique/CLEV-DENT/The Cleveland Dental Mfg. Co. Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A.' printed on box top/Label which originally sealed box, and is now broken bears trademark 'CLEV-DENT'.
- Missing
- One of the bite blocks in .2 is missing.
- Finish
- The wood is uncoated oak/the boxes are covered with whitepaper; blue lettering.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Cleveland Dental Mfg. Co., Holder, x-ray film, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1984.1229, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1984.1229.001/
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