Aluminum Dental Phantom With Rubber Face
I believe this Phantom dates to the 1930s. It has a unique cast character head that is a bit primitive. It also still has the rubber bottom half of the face and mouth. In addition the back of the head has the water catch basin and spout to hook up a drainage hose. Dental phantoms are devices used for practicing in dental universities. The dental phantoms resemble the anatomy of the skull and all the anatomical structures in the maxillofacial region. There are different type of phantoms depending on the exercise you want to create. Some of the phantoms contain only the cheeks, the gums and the teeth. Have you ever wondered the way dentists practice when making fillings or extractions before they make them in the mouth of a real patient? The use Dental Phantom. It would be a little tricky being the first patient of a student who has just studied theory with no practice. That’s what Eduard Oswald Fergus thought, a XIXth c. dentist who invented a gadget for practicing during this first stage, called “Dental Phantom”.
