The aims of suturing a wound are clear and easy to manage. The first is to prevent infection from entering…
Browsing: Dental instruments and equipment
A closer look at the actual tools dentists use day to day — elevators, chisels, rongeurs, scalers, and the rest — what each one does and how it’s used. Mostly written for dental students and people in the field who want to understand the equipment properly.
Orthodontics is one of the departments in dentistry involving the treatment and irregularities of teeth. It involves serial extraction (which…
Impression trays are used in conjunction with various types of materials to take imprints of the patient’s dentition. The type…
There are many times when measuring devices are needed for measurement in many disciplines of dentistry. Some examples of what…
Periodontal scalers are dental instruments used in the prophylactic and periodontal treatment of teeth (most often individual teeth), such as…