OPTEC- Instruments Flashcards
What is this instrument?
A dental probe.
Used for
caries detetion, surface testing, object manipulation
What is this instrument?
Tweezers
What type of instrument is this?
A spoon excavator.
What instrument is this?
Round excavator
What is this?
A chisel
what is this?
A gingival margin trimmer
This is used for the removal of unsupported enamel prisms.
What is this?
Plastics used for the manipulation of shapable filling materials.
What is this?
A flat plastic.
What is this?
A condensor
Used for condensing amalgam and manipulating composite.
What is this?
this is a carver used for carving amalgam and shaping composite.
What is this?
This is an applicator used for the placement of lining materials.
Name this instrument?
This is an amalgam carrier which is used for carrying the amalgam from the dappen pot to the cavity.
name this instrument
This is a composite gun used for placement of composite
What is this instrument?
A burnisher.
This is used for finishing amalagam (smoothing it after condensation
What is this?
This is a K clamp used for posterior teeth.
What is this?
This is a BW clamp used for posteiror teeth.
What is this?
This is a high speed flat fissure burr.
This is used to acess caries
What is this?
This is a slow speed round burr which is used to cut dentine
What is this?
This is a red band diamond finishing burr.
This is used to remove unsupported enamel and keep the enamel surface smooth.
What is this?
This is a high speed ultrafine finishing burr.
This is used for removing cavosurface margin angles and for finishing
What is this?
This is a soft flex disc and mandrel.
This is used for polishing.
It can be used to maintain the circular edge by polishing the side of the contact point.
What is this?
A rubber disc.
This is used for finishing composite without damaging the tooth surface.
This smoothes the composite surface (polishing it)
What is this?
This is a high speed round burr.
This is used to remove dentine
create undercuts for amalagm
Remove the contact points.
What are these?
These are amalgam polishers.
We use brownies and then the greenies (B comes before G)
What is this?
A silicon impregnated point
