Garengeot Dental Key - Maison Favre
Used from the 19th century through the 1930s
Date: Mid- to late 19th century (c. 1860–1890) - Made of wrought iron and ebony
Garengeot Dental Key - Maison Favre
Used from the 19th century through the 1930s...!
Wrought-iron dental extractor with an ebony handle.
The invention of this extractor is attributed to the French military surgeon René-Jacques Croissant de Garengeot in the early 18th century, who adapted the corkscrew mechanism for extracting molars, replacing the older “pelicans,” a type of dental instrument.
Date: Mid- to late 19th century (c. 1860–1890)
An instrument designed to extract molars through a twisting and pulling motion, often used by dentists for its ease of use but heavily criticized in the 19th century for the damage it could cause—such as tearing off pieces of gum or fracturing teeth—during extraction...
A dental extractor consisting of a shaft and a hook made of forged iron and steel, featuring a vertical octagonal handle with faceted sides made of ebony wood and a bone inlay. The shaft bears the hallmark of the Favre firm, a cutler and surgeon established at 21 Rue Centrale in Lyon beginning in 1861.
The instrument operates on the principle of a lever: the fixed hook grips the neck of the tooth while the body rests against the gum, applying a sharp lateral twisting motion to dislodge the tooth from its socket. The tooth, wedged between a hook and a key-shaped blade, could not withstand the operator’s twisting motion—similar to that used to open a lock—hence the instrument’s name. Sometimes, along with the tooth, a piece of the jawbone was removed...
Trauma and damage: The force of this centrifugal rotation caused major trauma: frequent fractures of the alveolar bone and jaw, breakage of adjacent teeth caught in the pivot point, and severe lacerations of the oral soft tissues.
Despite its proven clinical danger, this instrument and its variants continued to be manufactured and marketed in surgical instrument catalogs continuously until the 1930s, before being definitively replaced by the dental forceps.
The dental forceps, thanks to axial gripping via anatomically shaped jaws and controlled rocking movements, finally put an end to the ravages caused by dental levers by preventing destructive pressure on adjacent teeth and preserving the patients’ bone integrity.
Length: 13 cm
For more information on the Garengeot keys: clef de Garengeot
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Garengeot Dental Key - Maison Favre
Used from the 19th century through the 1930s
Date: Mid- to late 19th century (c. 1860–1890) - Made of wrought iron and ebony
