-DENTAL INSTRUMENTS

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Explorers

To examine teeth for decay (caries), calculus, furcations, or other abnormalities

Cotton Forceps (Pliers)

To grasp or transfer items and/or material into and out of the oral cavity

Tray Setup

(From top to bottom) Mouth mirror, explorer, cotton forceps

Mouth Mirror

To provide indirect vision; retract lips and cheek; reflect light

High Suction

To evacuate large volumes of fluid and debris from the oral cavity

Surgical Suction

To evacuate fluid from oral cavity and surgical site

Saliva Ejector

To evacuate smaller volumes of fluid from the oral cavity

Isolite

To retract tongue and evacuate fluid from patient’s mouth, to provide light to the working area of the mouth, to gently hold the patients mouth open during use, to serve as a barrier to the airway, protecting the patient from inadvertent aspiration of dental material

Air/Water syringe

To rinse and dry specific teeth or entire oral cavity

High-Speed Handpiece

To use with bur to cut tooth structure, to cut bone, to remove decay, and to modify or remove restorations

t Slow-Speed Motor with Contra-Angle Handpiece Attach

To use with bur to cut tooth structure, to cut bone, to remove decay, and to modify or remove restorations

Slow-Speed Motor with Straight Handpiece Attachment

To use with bur to cut tooth structure, to cut bone, to remove decay, and to modify or remove restorations

Prophy Slow-Speed Handpiece/Motor

To polish teeth with prophylaxis/prophy cup or brush attachment

Disposable Prophy Angle

To polish teeth for prophylaxis

Round Bur

To remove caries from tooth structure, to open tooth for endodontic treatment, to create retention in cavity preparation, to use for many procedures on a tooth

Pear Shaped Bur

To open tooth for restoration, to remove caries

Finishing Bur

To finish composite restoration, to finish restoration by restoring anatomy in tooth, to equilibrate or adjust occlusion

Diamond Bur—Flat-end Taper

To reduce a tooth for crown preparation when a square shoulder is needed

Anesthetic Aspirating Syringe

To administer a local anesthetic

Short Needle

To administer anesthetic by infiltration injection on maxillary arch

Long Needle

To administer anesthetic by block injection on m mandibular arch

Anesthetic Cartridge

To hold liquid anesthetic for local injection in the oral cavity

Recapping Device

To hold needle sheath for one-hand recapping after injection

Topical Anesthetic Gel

To numb an area before using needle to administer anesthesia

Nitrous Oxide Nasal Mask

To place mask over patient’s nose for the delivery of N20, to evacuate excess N20 that is not breathed in by patient

Nitrous Oxide and Analgesic Tanks

To use as an analgesic to relax patients for dental procedures, to be inhaled through a mask placed over the nose

Cassette Wrap

To use to cover cassettes for sterilization purposes, to store cassette with wrapping after sterilization, to use for tray cover during dental procedure

Indicator Tape and Dispensing Unit

To secure wrap on outside of cassette, to use outside cassettes or sterilization pouches to indicate exposure of instruments to a specific temperature—Color will change on the tape

Sterilization Pouches/Bag

Instruments and cassettes are placed in this to be then autoclaved.

Sharps Container

To serve as storage receptacle for used needles, old burs, scalpel blades, orthodontic wires, endodontic files, and all other disposable sharp items used during dental procedures

Ultrasonic Cleaning Unit

To remove debris and bioburden from instruments. This is done prior to sterilizing instruments.

Autoclave Sterilizer

To kill all microbes, viruses, bacteria, and fungi, thereby sterilizing instruments

Statim “flash” Autoclave (used for quick sterilizing)

To kill all microbes, viruses, bacteria, and fungi, to sterilize instruments and handpieces

Biological Monitors for Sterilizers

To confirm efficacy of sterilization, documentation of results is recorded in office sterilization log, biological monitors, spore testing, measure time, temperature and pressure to verify proper sterilization

XCP Kit

To position and hold a film in patient’s mouth for periapical and bite-wing images using parallel technique. To allow patient to bite on holder to keep film in place while positioning the position-indicating device (PID) and exposing the film

Lead Apron

To place on patient for protection against scattered radiation during exposure of x-ray film 5

Dental Imaging Unit

To expose film with radiation that is generated in the imaging unit

NOMAD

To take intramural images with a portable device, to expose digital sensors or conventional dental radiographic film

Digital Panoramic/Cephalometric Imaging Unit

To take digital panoramic and cephalometric images without film or without processing the film, to protect the image of maxillary and mandibular teeth by digitally projecting radiation onto an electronic sensor and then to computerized imaging system

SCANX Digital Imaging System with Phosphor sensors plates

To produce diagnostic intraoral digital images

Intraoral sensors for Digital Images

To take digital intraoral images without film or without processing the film, to project the image of the teeth by digitally projecting radiation onto an electronic sensor and to computerized imaging system before going to computer storage