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Stethoscope

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Auscultate heart, lungs, digestive organs

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Wood light

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Confirm or rule out ringworm infection

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Refractometer

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Measure total solids in plasma and USG

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Fecalyzers

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Sets up a faecal test for presence of parasites

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Otoscope

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Instrument to check ear canal and drum

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Ophthalmoscope

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Instrument to check eye’s interior & exterior

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Tourniquet

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Occludes a blood vessel so a venepuncture can be performed

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Ear bulb syringe

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Delivers cleansing solutions to ear canal, or to flush wounds

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Faecal loop

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Retrieves a sample of faeces from rectum

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Oesophageal stethoscope

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Measures heart beat during anaesthesia

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Endotracheal tube (ET-tube)

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Establishes an open airway to deliver gas anaesthesia or oxygen during anaesthesia

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Tracheostomy tube

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Establishes an airway through trachea wall in patient with upper airway obstruction or critical illness

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Indwelling intravenous catheter

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Establishes an IV port to deliver IV fluids

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Central venous catheter

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Establishes an IV port to deliver IV fluids over extended period of time or to measure central venous pressure or blood pressure by placement in artery

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Intravenous drip set

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Provides connection between IV catheter and IV fluids to regulate flow of fluids

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T-Port / Extension port

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Establishes two injection ports into one catheter

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Injection cap

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Closes off end of a catheter

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Urethral catheter

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Catheterizes dog or cat

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Penrose drain

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Provides body fluids a path to exit body

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(X-Ray measuring) Calliper

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Measures animal’s body parts to determine which setting to use on radiograph

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Laryngoscope handle

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Holds laryngeal speculums

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Laryngeal speculum

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Exposes the tracheal opening by placing pressure in front of epiglottis

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Doppler (ultrasonic blood flow monitor)

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Determines blood pressure

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Pulse Oximeter

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Monitor pulse & respiration rates, O2 saturation and body temperature during surgery. A clamp device is attached to tongue or genitals to monitor pulse & arterial O2. RR is monitored by temp sensor that’s placed inside of ET-tube attachment.

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Multi-Parameter Monitor

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Gathers vital signs from patient during anaesthetic procedure (T, HR, RR, SPO2, BP, MAP, ECG, EtCO2)

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Gas Anaesthesia Machine

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Use to induce and maintain anaesthesia. Includes a bottle-shaped vaporizer that mixes and vaporizes anaesthetic agent with O2, a O2-flow meter set to deliver appropriate level of O2, a soda-lime canister to absorb CO2 from exhaled breaths, and a pop-off valve and scavenger port to allow excessive gas to be vented.

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Ambu bag

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Delivers room air or O2 from a tank to a patient in respiratory distress. Usually used when ET-tube is in place. Bag is squeezed, forcing air into lungs. Size dependent on animal size.

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Infusion pump

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Regulates mechanically the fluid flow into a patient.

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Endoscope

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To view the GT-tract via oral cavity or rectum or to view the reproductive tract via the vagina. Also used to perform surgery, biopsy, or culturing through a small incision that allows access to other body cavities.

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Autoclave

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Render objects sterile by steam, heat & pressure. Consists of a chamber, a heavy door, and a water source with distilled water.

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Mosquito Forceps

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Clamps or occludes small capillaries or vessel. Transverse grooves on entire jaw. 10cm.

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Crile Forceps

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Occludes vessels such as small uterine horns or small-medium-sized blood vessels. Transvers grooves on entire jaw. Most commonly used for dogs & cats. 17cm.

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Kelly Forceps

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Occludes small-medium-sized vessels. Transverse grooves only on top half of jaws. The lower smooth area allows user to clamp tubing without worrying about cutting the tubing. 16cm.

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Rochester Carmalt Forceps

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Clamps large tissue bundles that have a lumen or contain blood vessels. First ¼ of the jaws has grooves that run both longitudinal & transverse. The other ¾ have longitudinal grooves only. When instrument is placed perpendicular to the blood vessel, it occludes the vessel and prevents the blood from flowing. Other instrument’s transverse grooves allow continuous blood flow.

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Rochester-Péan Forceps

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Clamps blood vessels or controls large tissue bundles. Jaws have transverse grooves along jaws for good crushing.18cm.

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Rochester-Ochsner Forceps

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Clamps blood vessels or grasps tissue. Jaws have transverse grooves for good crushing. The tips of jaws have teeth that are 1x2, like a tissue forceps. Teeth prevent slippage of large tissue bundles. 18cm.

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Angiotribe Forceps

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Powerfully crushes and creates a fold in tissue. One jaw has raised ridge that runs down the centre, opposite jaw has a fitting groove. Both jaws have grooves Often included in spay packs for uterine horns & spermatic cords. 18cm

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Rat-Tooth Forceps

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Grasps skin anther dense tissue to place sutures. Can cause extensive damage to delicate tissues.

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Dressing Forceps

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Grasps inanimate objects (dressings or nonviable tissues). Has transverse grooves across the tines. Can cause significant damage to viable tissues.

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Allis Tissue forceps

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Holds with maximal power. Commonly used for tonsils, vaginal, breast, and thyroid tissues. Has jaws with small teeth that are arranged so that teeth are perpendicular to the pull. Can cause tissue trauma.

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Babock Intestinal Forceps

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Grasps or encircle delicate tissue (intestines or uterus) without crushing or traumatizing it. Jaws curve out, grooves run parallel where jaws meet. Has lighter jaw compression which allows atraumatic occlusion.

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Towel clamps

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Secures drapes to patient’s skin by means of small puncture. Also grasps tough tissue & reduce small bone fractures. Sharply pointed tips curve around and touch each other.

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Alligator Forceps

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Reaches deep into an animal’s body to retrieve foreign object. Long narrow shaft that ends in tiny grasping serrated jaws. Jaws are opened/ closed by handles.

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Half-circle taper point suture needle

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Sutures organs & vessels. Round from point to eye. Select suture material the same size in diameter as needle, this way the material fills the resulting hole which reduces trauma to tissue & helps to prevent leakage of organ or vessel have a lumen.

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Half-circle cutting-edge suture needle,

Half-curved Cutting-edge suture needle

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Sutures skin, tendons & ligaments. Triangular and has cutting edges on all three sides. It slices a flat line into tissue. This can weaken soft tissue like muscle & allows serum to accumulate on both sides of tissue.

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Keith’s Abdominal suture needle

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Straight cutting-edge needle se to suture skin, tendons, ligaments.

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Post-mortem needle

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Sutures skin on animals after a necropsy. Large cutting-edge curved needle (s-shaped).

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Dermal punch

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Obtains dermal biopsy. Punch with sharp edges with variety of diameters.

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Occluding Forceps (Presbyterian Hospital)

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Clamps rubber tubing without cutting through it. Smooth jaws.

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Mayo Needle holder

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Drives suture needles through tissue and assists in tying sutures. Short jaws have cross-hatched grooves. Has a box lock.

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Olsen Needle holder

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Drives suture needles through tissue and assists in tying sutures. Scissor blades are set behind jaws so surgeon can cut suture material with same instrument.

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Metzenbaum Scissors

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Blunt-dissects or cuts soft tissues. Fine blades have blunt or pointed tips, straight or curved, smooth or serrated. Never use to cut suture or bandage material. 16cm.

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Mayo Scissors

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Blunt dissection and cuts through bulky connective tissues. Straight or curved, smooth or serrated. More mass than Metzenbaum.

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Operating scissors – blunt-blunt, sharp-blunt, sharp-sharp

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Cuts suture material or other inanimate material. Tips are available in three combinations, most common is sharp-blunt.

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Wire scissors

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Cuts stainless steel wire in orthopedic surgery. Short compact serrated blades, angled or straight.

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Stitch scissors

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Removes sutures form an incision line or wound closure. Tip of one blade has a small depression that can be slipped between suture material and skin, this depression is as sharp as rest of blade.

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Lister Bandage Scissors

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Removes bandages or other dressings. One blade ends in blunt triangle that pushes the skin away, preventing accidental cutting of skin. Scissors are angled to allow user to get fingers under scissors.

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Knowles Bandage scissors

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Removes bandages or other dressings. The finer blade and tines let user place scissors beneath tightly fitted bandages.

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Senn Rake Retractor

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Holds open a wound or incision so that surgeon can view underlying tissues. One end has three-pronged sharp or blunt points that curve sharply. Works well with smaller incisions and wounds.

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Weitlaner Retractor

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Maintains muscle retraction during orthopaedic surgery. Sharp or blunt, outward-curved prongs are held open by a ratchet just above the handle.

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Gelpi retractor

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Maintains wound exposure during general surgery, orthopaedic surgery and neurosurgery. Sharp outward-curved points are arranged on a gently curved shaft that opens wider than the Weitlaner retractor.

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Balfour Retractor

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Holds abdominal wall open. Two wire-like blades are inserted into incision line and spread apart. Scoop-like blade is positioned on sternum or on cranial aspect of incision.

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Frazier Rib Spreaders

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Holds ribs apart during thoracic surgery. Half-curved blunt prongs are positioned on ribs and then pulled away from each other. Prongs are held in place by a turn screw.

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Iris Scissors

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Cuts through suture material and other nonviable materials. Tips look much like those of operating scissors. Very small scissors.

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Tartar Scrapers

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Remove tartar & plaque from surfaces of teeth. Available in variety of shapes & angels

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Tartar scalers

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Remove tartar & plaque from supragingival surfaces of teeth. Hoock-shaped.

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Curette

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Removes tartar from subgingival & supragingival surfaces of teeth. Used on both buccal and lingual surfaces

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Depth Probe & Explorer

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Probe used to examine teeth for depth of sulci or periodontal pocket. Explorer evaluates surface irregularities, caries & calculus detection, furcation involvement & exploration of pockets. Explorer has a blunt tip and graduations in mm to measure depth of pocket. The probe end is half curved and ends in a fine point. It’s dragged across tooth to check for missed tartar while pointy end checks for soft spots.

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Dental mirror

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To view & illuminate difficult to see tooth surfaces

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Tatar removing forceps

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Removes tartar or calculus from supragingival surfaces of teeth. Used to quickly break up accumulations of tartar.

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Tooth-splitting & separating forceps

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Splits multirooted teeth for removal. flat sharply angeled forceps provides maximal torque to split the tooth.

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Incisor- and root- extracting forceps

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Grasps small incisor or the root of a tooth. The fine jaws have small indentations on an almost straight handle.

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Incisor, canine & premolar extracting forceps

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Aids in removal of the incisor, canine and preomolar. jaws have deeper indentations to accommodate larger teeth. handles are slightly bent to facilitate removal of teeth.

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Molar-extracting forceps

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Aids in removal of molars. the jaws are very deep, handles are usually sharply angled to allow access to tooth and facilitate removal.

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Dental Elevators

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Loosen a tooth from periodontal ligament before its extraction. Have pockets of various shapes to fir the surface of tooth and various lengths to accommodate teeth.

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Dental Cavitron with polisher

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Removes tartar from teeth, then polish them so they are smooth.
Ultrasonic motion removes tartar with a handpiece and heads that are angled to conform to tooth’s surface. Unit requires water to keep teeth cool, otherwise they would be damaged by the heat created by the ultrasonic motion.
The polisher uses a paste that smoothes tooth surface to eliminate grooves caused by scaling. It’s imperative to use paste and only touch tooth for only a second or two to prevent heat damage.

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Spring-mouth speculum, Gag

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holds open the mouth.
rubber fittings on each blade are designed to cradle canines. Blades are squeezed together and fitted over canines, the spring opens mouth. Blades should not be forced apart once fitted over teeth to prevent injury.

Vet Nurse Glossary, Terminology, Abbreviations (5 decks)

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