The team carefully extracted the fossil from the rocky ground using small dental picks and brushes. (sciencemag.org)
Using ordinary dental picks, Eerkens and his team at UC Davis extracted the dental plaque from the ancient teeth and then sent it to Tushingham and Gang's labs at WSU for analysis. (rdmag.com)
Thus it is currently illegal to operate a hand scaler, or dental pick of any kind, outside the supervision of a veterinarian. (nationalpetdentalassociation.com)