Sharp spoon

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A sharp spoon is a hand surgical instrument and a variant of the curette . It is mainly used in dermatology , dentistry and in the treatment of burns for superficial necrotomy. It gets its name from the sharp-edged, roughly pea-sized spoon-like ends that are used to scrape off tissue growth or scrape bone cavities ( exkochleation ).

dermatology

The dermatological sharp spoons are actually sharply ground and mostly on one side, sometimes in the form of a sharp loop that is hollow or rather flat. It is used, for example, for seborrheic keratoses , warts and dellar warts as well as for skin scrapings. It was described both at the end of the 18th century and in 1877 by George Henry Fox and Henry Granger Piffard . This also includes the sharp Volkmann spoon .

Dentistry

The most famous sharp spoon is named after the German oral surgeon Carl Partsch . This instrument was developed by him around 1910 for dental surgical interventions as a cyst peeler for odontogenic cysts . It has a length of usually 12 to 16 cm and is usually double-ended and angled. It is often used in the cleaning of tooth alveoli after tooth extractions or osteotomies to remove granulation tissue. It can also be used to remove small root residues and small foreign bodies. Modifications are called sharp spoons after Hemingway, after Lucas, after Kerpel (one-sided) and Williger (also one-sided).

variants

  • Sharp spoon (English for "sharp spoon") after Fox and Piffard 1877

  • Sharp spoon to Partsch

  • Partsch sharp spoon (detail)

  • Sharp spoon

  • Different sharp spoons. Right: cyst spoon .

  • Sharp spoon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Currette , Encyclopédie Méthodique. Surgery. Planches, by M. de la Roche and M. Petit-Rädel. 1790-1792. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  2. ^ Piffard, Henry G. (Henry Granger), Fox, George Henry, Cutaneous and venereal memoranda, digitized , 1877. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ 3rd revised edition 1885, pp. 118–119: Vidal's Lupus scarifier and Dermal curette digitized . Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  4. ^ Walter Hoffmann-Axthelm : Lexicon of Dentistry , Quintessenz-Verlag, Berlin.