ADAQ Museum of Dentistry: Gritter Handpieces

ADAQ Museum of Dentistry recently received six Gritter handpieces, kindly donated by Leon Gritter of Gritter Dental Australia Pty Ltd.

These are the first ever Australian-made turbine handpieces from 1961 until the early 1990s.

They were produced by Dutch immigrant Frederik Gritter in Sydney. From the 1990s, globalised production meant that manufacturing in-house was no longer profitable for small companies. 

Almost forty years on, the process of reverse globalisation seems in the cards. 

How will the Australian dental manufacturing industry change?

More from the ADAQ Museum of Dentistry on hand drills.