Creating the best dental work - whether it be crowns, bridges, implants or dentures - requires a dentist and his or her laboratory to have a certain level of mastery. In some cases, the patient can complete the repair while on the chair. In other cases, the restoration must be sent to the laboratory. In either case, clinicians and laboratories rely on any number of tools and assist each other to help complete the work.
These dental supplies can be anything from simple, inexpensive carving knives to full chair milling systems that cost thousands, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
For many dental professionals, the complete weapon of the repair tool is still a mystery beyond their daily use. But this kind of segmented work doesn't have to be a specification - dental technicians can benefit from understanding what's happening on the chair, and the dentist must know what's happening in the lab. This comprehensive workflow knowledge creates better results from start to finish, helping to position dental laboratories as expert consultants, providing clinicians with knowledge to ensure better patient outcomes, and ensuring that the dental chair staff guarantees Their restorations are perfect every time.
Whether you are a dentist, dental technician or other expert, knowing which equipment is the most important can make all the difference. With this in mind, we interacted with a number of doctors, laboratory professionals and dental technologists to understand what they thought were the basic tools for the 2017 recovery process.
Hand tools
Doctors and laboratories use specific hand tools to make their restorations look appropriate. Some are very basic tools that have existed for decades (and may even no longer be commonly used), while other tools are specifically built for new technologies.
Facebow and articulator
"I don't know if you call it technology because it has been around for a long time," said Dr DDS David, an ordinary dentist in Amherst, New York, and founder of IgniteDDS.com. "But the facial arch and the articulator are working hand in hand. The facial arch is the clinical part I use for the patient's mouth, and the articulator is more on the laboratory side. The true performance of the patient's mouth at the model stage is allowed, so the experiment The room not only knows how the teeth come together, but also predicts the way and angle of jaw movement.”
Dr. Rice pointed out that this tool may not have been used by many dentists. "Sadly, this is a failed trial technique," he said. “This is something that many dentists do not want to use. It may be because they have never learned how to study in a dental school, or they just left it, but when you use it, it makes life easier.”
Carving tools
Dan Elfring is a laboratory technician at Pickle Prosthodontics in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who uses a variety of engraving tools to engrave wax. For example, he has a tool specifically used to define the details of a denture.
Elfring said: "It is used to engrave the rim of the denture. "So you wax it and use it to sculpt the line on the top of the gingiva. "
Another tool he uses is the Lecron engraving machine, which is used to make denture bases.
"When I wax the denture base, most of it is carved with wax," Elfring said. "Afterwards, I made a bulk wax and then I cut it back."
Leaf gauge
The leaf gauge is an inexpensive diagnostic tool - consisting of several thin leaves - for measuring bite marks.
"If your dental technique is really good, the position of the tooth is really determined by a few things," said Dr. Rice. "That's what they look like someone laughs, but it's also determined by the muscles, the muscles of the chin, and some very simple things, like leaves, that help me make sure that I use teeth to bite me Teeth coordinate with muscles and temporomandibular joints. "
Acrylic mixer
Some tools may seem simple, but they play an important role. For example, Elfring uses an acrylic stirrer to ensure that the resulting product is smooth and bubble free.
“It has a spoon at one end to pull the polymer out of the bottle and a little mixing knife at the other end,” he describes. "So what's unique is that it's open-ended, so it doesn't produce too much turbulence when you mix it."
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Laboratories rely on fixtures when making restorations, which can be used for very specific professional functions. For example, Mark Ferguson, general manager of Vulcan Custom Dental, pointed out that a clamp from Harvest Dental made the implant easier to manufacture.
Ferguson said: “This is a dental equipment for fixing a hybrid implant base on a ceramic base. “Whether it is zirconia or e.max, it makes bonding of the hybrid implant easier. "
