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DENTAL INSTRUMENTS

DR. HICHAM NUAIMI


BDS, SPECIALIST DIPLOMAT IN OPERATIVE
AND ESTHETIC DENTISTRY
SPECIALIST DIPLOMA IN IMPLANTOLOGY
MASTER IN OPERATIVE AND ESTHETIC
MOST HAND
INSTRUMENTS WERE
INVENTED IN 19TH inferior
CENTURY WITH metal Large
alloys

heavy
handles
Ancient handled
instruments were
palm grasping Modern ones are
pen grasping
credited with the first acceptable
nomenclature for and
classification of hand instruments

developed many of the instruments


and techniques

first who modify Blacks


instrumentation
developed Wedelstaedt chisel now referred to as curved
chisel

developed a new set of instruments called ferrier set


which were more refined and had uniform thickness on
the cutting edge

invented pneumatic condenser


MATERIALS USED IN INSTRUMENT

stelitte

Stainless
steel

Carbon
steel
Marzouk Black

Classification

Charbenau Pickard
BLACK
Dental
CLASSIFICATION Instrument

Non- cutting
Cutting Edge
edge

Knives Amalgam
Excavators
condensar
carvers ordinary hatchet Mirrors
files, scalers hoes Probes
spoons
SCALERS
DENTAL FILES
Carvers Hoes
HATCHETS
CONDENSER
DENTAL KNIFES
MIRRORS
DENTAL PROBES
PICKARD Dental
CLASSIFICATION Materials

HAND-HELD ROTARY AUXILLIARY

Placing & Fibreoptic lights


condensing Scaling for illumination
Ultrasonic scalers
Carving & scalers Lights used for
finishing polymerization
FIBRO OPTIC DEVICE
FIBRO OPTIC LIGHT CURE
ULTRA SONIC SCALER
Condensing
instruments

Isolation Charbenau’s Cutting


instruments instruments
Classification

Finishing &
polishing
instruments
Hand: hatchets, chisels, Rotary: burs,
Cutting
hoes, excavators stones, disks

Condensing Hand & mechanical: plugger

Finishing Rotary: finishing


Hand: orange wood
polishing burs, mounted
sticks polishing points
brushes,
POLISHING DISCS
POLISHING DISCS
POLISHING POINTS
FINISHING BURS
WEDGES
PLUGGER
SPOON EXCAVATOR
RUBBER DAM
RUBBER DAM
LAB SPATULA
SPATULA
CARVER (GOLD INSTRUMENT)
CARVERS
PARTS OF HAND
INSTRUMENT

Blade shank handle


Blade- is the part of the instrument
bearing the cutting edge

Shank- connects the shaft with the blade or


working point or nib.

Shaft- used as a handle, straight and is


usually without variations in size. It
maybe serrated to increase friction for
hand gripping.
Thank You.

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