Dental Office Spaces
Dental treatment room & control center of the clinical area.
What is the dental operatory?
This activates and controls the handpieces.
This holds the shank portion of the bur in the handpiece.
What is the chuck?
Straight shank, Latch-type shank, and friction grip
What are types of shanks?
This type of bur may be used to remove decay and gain entry into tooth structure.
What are round burs?
This is an area not to be referred to as a "waiting area"
What is the reception area?
This equipment triturates dental materials.
What is the triturator or amalgamator?
This type of attachment uses latch-type burs.
What is a contra-angle?
This type of bur has more blades for the finishing stage of a restoration.
These burs are shaped like ordinary burs, but larger. They are designed to take more force while in use and should be cleaned and sterilized the same way as ordinary burs.
Hub where instruments are maintained, cleaned, sterilized, and stored in preparation for reuse.
These are used to provide coverage for items that are not easily cleaned or disinfected and easy to remove.
What are barriers?
Can include impervious backed paper, aluminum foil, or plastic covers.
This is the purpose of the water system in the high speed handpiece.
The number associated with an inverted cone bur.
This is used to hold discs in the handpiece.
This area includes work benches and wall mounted storage cabinets. Procedures such as pouring impressions, preparing diagnostic models, and creating custom impression trays can be performed here.
This microorganism is found in the water lines and air-water syringe lines.
This product is used to help remove and reduce this microorganism.
What is biofilm?
What is dental vacuum line cleaner? ex. Maxi-Evac
The shank, neck, and head.
What are parts of a bur/rotary instrument?
Restorative burs are made out of this material.
Comfort and mobility for the dental team & privacy and comfort for the dental patient are goals to do this...
What is design the dental treatment area?
Dental water lines should be flushed at the beginning of the day for _____minutes. (according to the MDA)
What is 3?
*BTC: 60 seconds at set up & inbetween patients.
Turning this helps control the amount of water flowing to your handpiece cart.
What is a hex key?
A #169 bur is classified as a
What is a tapered fissure bur?
These burs are mostly used for crown preparation due to their rapid cutting ability.