Armamentarium

Question 1

What is the number of the endo explorer?

Answer 1

-DG16

Question 2

What do you use a glick #1 spreader for?

Answer 2

-Melt gutta-percha

Question 3

What are spreaders used for?

Answer 3

-To make room for additional gutta percha points

Question 4

What are the advantages of a finger spreader?

Answer 4

-Pressure and compression laterally and vertically

Question 5

What is the obturation process?

Answer 5

-Filling the root canals

Question 6

Why do you use hemostats in endodontics?

Answer 6

-Holding radiographic film

Question 7

What is the main irrigant used in endo?

Answer 7

-Sodium Hypo-chloride

Question 8

What three things do you use for irrigation in endo?

Answer 8

• EDTA
• Alcohol
• Sodium hypo-chloride

Question 9

How are K files made?

Answer 9

• Stainless steel

- Nickel Titanium

Question 10

How are Hedstrom files made?

Answer 10

-Stainless steel

Question 11

How are reamer files made?

Answer 11

• Stainless steel

- Some Nickel Titanium

Question 12

If you cut a K file cross sectionally what are you going to see?

Answer 12

-A square

Question 13

If you take a triangular blank and twist it what type of file do you get?

Answer 13

-Reamer

Question 14

How do you make a hedstrom file?

Answer 14

-A round blank

Question 15

What is the weakest of all the files used in endo?

Answer 15

-Hedstrom file

Question 16

These files are manufactured by machine grinding a round wire?

Answer 16

-Hedstrom

Question 17

T/F Hedstrom files should only be used in a rasping motion and should never be rotated or engaged into dentin.

Answer 17

T/F

Question 18

If you take a diamond blank and twist it what type of file do you get?

Answer 18

-Flexo file

Question 19

What are reamers made for?

Answer 19

-To rotate

Question 20

What is the barbed broach for?

Answer 20

• Pull the pulp out

- pull the cotton pellet out

Question 21

-What does a lentulo spiral used for?

Answer 21

-Push down sealers and cements down canals

Question 22

What are the Gates Glidden drill sizes?

Answer 22

• .5 (at the belly for all the following)
• .7
• .9
• 1.1
• 1.3
• 1.5

Question 23

How many sizes of gates glidden drill sizes are there?

Answer 23

-6

Question 24

What do the rings on the gates mean?

Answer 24

-What number of gates it is example #1 = .5

Question 25

What do you use that gates glidden drill do?

Answer 25

-Open orifices in canal

Question 26

What is a good property of nickel titanium?

Answer 26

-Super elastic

Question 27

What is the purpose of the reamers?

Answer 27

Enlarge the size of the root canals and to negotiate the canals to their apices

Question 28

What is the purpose of K files?

Answer 28

-Used to plane and smooth the walls of the canal

Question 29

What are the purpose of hedstrom files?

Answer 29

-Used to remove old root fillings and to plane the walls of the canal

Question 30

What is the rake angle on a hedstrom file?

Answer 30

-Positive (much sharper than the negative)

Question 31

What endo files are red?

Answer 31

• 25
• 55
• 110

Question 32

What endo files are yellow?

Answer 32

• 20
• 50
• 100

Question 33

What endo files are white?

Answer 33

• 15
• 45
• 90

Question 34

What endo files are black?

Answer 34

• 40
• 80
• 140

Question 35

What endo files are green?

Answer 35

• 35
• 70
• 130

Question 36

What endo files are blue?

Answer 36

• 30
• 60
• 120

Question 37

What endo file is purple?

Answer 37

-10

Question 38

If you have a #20 file with an 02 taper what width will you be at 3 mm up the file?

Answer 38

-.26 mm

Question 39

If you have a #20 file with an 04 taper what width will you be at 3 mm up the file?

Answer 39

-.32 mm

Question 40

How long is the cutting length of every endo file?

Answer 40

-16 mm

Question 41

What are the uses for a file?

Answer 41

• Canal negotiation
• Canal debridement
• Length determination
• Canal Shaping