dental forceps

Then our old Russian produced an aged pair of dental forceps, so we tied Porta up and The Old Un wrenched the tooth out of his head.

Writhing in pain, the male patient with a large head and small body becomes the vulnerable victim at the mercy of the female nurse or hygienist, who is using dental forceps to pull his tooth.

Typically the tooth is lifted using an elevator, and using dental forceps, rocked back and forth until the periodontal ligament has been sufficiently broken and the supporting alveolar bone has been adequately widened to make the tooth loose enough to remove.

Local tradition describes Bishop Seely as a man of immense girth who made his pastoral rounds riding one mule and leading another laden with staple food items to be distributed to needy families, blacksmith tools for the shoeing of horses and sharpening of plowshares, and dental forceps to remove aching teeth.