Instruments 1
What is an Amalgam Carrier?
To carry and dispense amalgam mix into cavity preparation.
What is a Mouth Mirror?
To provide indirect vision,
To retract lips, cheeks, and tongue,
To reflect light into the mouth.
What is Cotton Pliers? Cotton Forceps? College Pliers?
To grasp the material and transfer it into and out of the oral cavity.
What is a Carpule?
Small cylindrical glass tubes containing dental anesthetics which are screwed onto dental syringes and are commonly aspirated while the practitioner injects the patient.
What is Amalgam Well?
Amalgam filling material used to fill cavities caused by tooth decay.
What is a condenser?
To pack and condense amalgam into cavity preparation.
What is a Periodontal Probe?
To measure periodontal pocket depth in millimeter increments.
What is an Explorer?
To examine tooth for decay
What is a Tofflemire?
To maintain the stability of the matrix band (used with amalgam, composite, and build-up material).
What is a High-speed handpiece?
To use with burs.
To cut tooth with decay or other dental procedures.
What is an Articulator Holder?
To hold articulating paper in place.
To check centric and lateral occlusion
What is Anesthetic Aspirating Syringe?
To administer a local anesthetic
What is a Hollenback Carver?
To contour and carve occlusal and interproximal anatomy into amalgam restoration.
What is a High-velocity (volume) evacuation (HVE) tip?
To evacuate large volumes of fluid from the oral cavity
What is a Curing Light?
To harden light-cured material, bondings, sealants, composite, and build-up materials are used.
What is a Ball Burnisher?
Football Burnisher?
T-ball Burnisher?
To smooth amalgam after condensing.
To contour matrix band.
To perform initial carving of amalgam.
What is Straight Fissure Bur?
To cut cavity prep, form inner walls for cavity prep, and place retention grooves in the walls of cavity prep.
What is a Plastic Instrument? Composite Placement Instrument?
To carry composite material for cavity prep.
To place and condense composite material in cavity prep. To carve composite material in cavity prep.
What is a Prophy Cup? Prophy slow-speed handpiece with disposable prophy angle attachment?
To polish teeth with a prophy cup or brush attachment.
What is a Slow-speed motor with a contra-angle handpiece attachment?
To use with burs for intraoral and extraoral procedures: to Remove decay, to Refine cavity prep, to Adjust occlusal restoration, to Polish amalgam restoration, to Adjust partials and dentures.
What is a Discoid-Cleoid Carver?
To carve occlusal anatomy into amalgam restoration.
What is a Round bur/Slow speed?
To remove caries from tooth structure.
To open the tooth for treatment. (Slow Speed)
What is a Saliva Ejector?
Remove saliva and fluids from the mouth to keep it dry and clear for better visibility during dental procedures.
What is a Laboratory Bur?
To cut models or trim acrylic in labs.
What is an Amalgam Mixer or Triturator machine?
Mix dental materials, such as amalgam alloys and dental cements, at different speeds to ensure proper trituration and consistency.