When a warm mouth meets a cold dental instrument, But I don’t know what the doctor did，I feel a little nervous.
Today, we will introduce what types of dental instruments are more often referred in dentistry. Let everyone better understand, and these are also the dental clinic set up instruments and material list.
Mouth mirror
A smallmouth mirror is an essential tool for the oral examination.
The oral cavity is a small space and the doctor’s field of vision is limited. The use of a mouth mirror, especially a dental mirror with led light can obtain an indirect field of vision, increase local illumination, and then observe the surface of the tooth and the structure of the mouth that cannot be directly seen.
Sometimes, the doctor will also use the mouth mirror to pull the patient’s cheek or tongue, so that you can see the surface of the teeth covered by soft tissue.
Probe
The probe is also used for oral examinations to check the depth and size of the cavity, the state of the root canal, and the state of the gums.
According to different functions, the shape of the working end of the probe will be different. For example, a periodontal probe is similar to a miniature ruler, measured in millimeters, with a blunt tip at the tip. It is mainly used to detect and measure periodontal pockets and attachment levels, as well as to evaluate bleeding and pus during gum exploration.
Dental handpiece
The handpiece commonly used by dentists actually refers to rotating medical equipment. According to the speed and structure, it can be divided into high-speed mobile phones and low-speed dental handpieces.
It is often used with dental burs. Before filling the tooth, the doctor will use a high-speed rotating needle to grind away the carious part of the tooth.
Tooth elevator
Everyone knows the “leverage principle”. As one of the tooth extraction tools, the tooth elevator uses this principle to loosen the tooth before extraction to facilitate the extraction of the tooth.
According to the principles of applied mechanics and actual needs, the design of dental elevators includes straight, curved, apical, Barco, and triangular.
Orthodontic pliers
Our orthodontics department has such a row of various pliers, which can be said to be the treasure of orthodontists.
Some of them are used to bend and cut the archwires during orthodontics, and others are used to remove braces, band rings, and other braces, each of which is essential.
Dental LED light curing light
It is responsible for the appearance of dental equipment. It can emit a kind of purple light, and the human eye absorbs blue light, which makes the light-curable resin polymerize and cure quickly and effectively in a short time. It is often used for dental filling and orthodontic bonding.
There is also some special equipment in the dental center you may not use, But you can also understand.
Mouth scan
The digital intraoral scanner can quickly and accurately obtain the three-dimensional topography and color texture information of the soft and hard tissues of the patient’s teeth, gums, mucosa, and generate model data.
The traditional oral impression takes a long time to open the mouth, and the material has a certain irritation to patients with the sensitive throat. The digital mouth scan is fast, the process is comfortable, and the accuracy of the data and model can be improved so that the restoration can be made more sophisticated, and the CAD/CAM can be quickly repaired.
