of pincers would do the rest of the job, wiggling the tooth out of the gum until the extraction was complete. The functionality of today's dental forceps come from the need to remove items from the mouth such as the cotton balls dentists place next to a patient's teeth or the rubber bands a patient needs for their braces. However, most dental forceps are not designed for comfort, nor do they take the account of the dental practitioners hand positions throughout the procedure to mind. Dental forceps have been designed to the point where dentists experience medical complications of their own on the carpal scale considering their hands are always placed in an awkward angle while they remove items from the patient's mouth. List of dental forceps Bayonet Cow horns #23 Greyhound Lower universals Root Upper canine Upper left molar Upper right molar Upper straight long Upper straight short Upper universal fine Upper universals Upper wisdom tooth Elevators Cogswell-A & B elevators Coupland's elevators Crane root tip elevators Crossbar apex luxators Cryer elevators Flat elevators Heidbrink root tip elevators Miller's apex luxators Molts elevators Narrow and wide, straight and curved luxators Periosteal elevators Potts elevators Root-tip pick elevator Warwick James elevators Winter elevators Chisels Osteotome Orthodontic instruments Band pusher Band setter Bird beak pliers Bracket holder Bracket tweezer Cinch back Distal end cutters Elastics Hemostat/Mathieu pliers Tucker Endodontic instruments Apex locator Endodontic explorer Finger pluggers Finger spreader Gates glidden burs Guttapercha retrieval files Endodontic files and reamers Broken instrument retrieval files Controlled memory flexible files Hedstrom or H-files K-files Manual tapered files McSpadden files NiTi flex files Pathfinder files Rotary tapered files Lentulo spiral Masserans kit Microscope Peeso reamer burs Post and core kit See also Dentist Dental auxiliary Dentistry References Dental equipment Dental materials Medical equipment