ZBIRKA STARIH ZOBOZDRAVSTVENIH TNSTRUMENTOV PRIPOMOČNIKOV IN OPREME V MUZEJU NOVEJŠE ZGODOVINE V CELJU

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.