Have you ever considered what these items may be, who the buyers are, and what they do with the dental items? Dental items for sale on eBay range from toothbrush timers, denture containers, Ceplac plaque disclosing tablets to orthowax for braces used for dental purposes.

Digital art now includes dental vintage tools, such as 16^th century dental mouth gags, antique dental descaling sets, dental separators, ivory dental files, 18^th century Davier or jeweled dental forceps, dental pelican skrew mechanism and 19^th century horn dental mercury jars. Dental hygiene tools include vintage ivory tongue scrapers, toothpicks, and antique dental mirrors. As you can see, a lot of craft went into designing these tools that are now considered historic collector’s items.

The evolution and value of dental items for sale is not only for current dental or alternate use, but as artistic and collector’s items because of the value in design, materials used, and vintage history. Such items have developed over the centuries in different cultures and explain history, such as the Army Dental Surgery is on display at the Army Medical Services Museum. It makes you wonder what dental item or technology  for sale, such as the laser, will be the hallmark of our historic times?