Short communication, Note
THE COLLECTION OF OLD DENTAL INSTRUMENTS, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT KEPT IN THE MUSEUM OF RECENT HISTORY OF CEUE
Franc Štolfa
Abstract
Dental history is the youngest discipline of stomatology: development
of old dental instruments. It attracts antiquity collectors, some
peculiar collectors of tools and medico-cultural witnesses of the past.
The collection, is one ofthe few in the world and has a wide range of
different instruments for dental practice. It is kept in the Museum of
Recent History in Celje and was first opened to the public on the 5th
of May, 1993. The instruments were gathered by prim. dr. Franc
Stolf". The history of dental instruments is not a mere theory but also
a long lasting practice of collecting, keeping, documenting, storing,
renovating and exposing of objects, important for better understanding
of dental profession.
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Hrčak ID:
102486
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Publication date:
23.12.2003.
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