Oral and maxillofacial surgeryDissection and grasping
Dental elevator / periosteal elevator
Handled instrument with a flat or curved tip, used to separate the periosteum from bone or luxate a tooth.
How it is used
Raising mucoperiosteal flaps and luxation prior to tooth extraction.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.