Oral Surgery Instruments Flashcards
What is a Warwick james elevator used for?
Dental elevator for removing teeth and roots, especially upper 8s
What is a Howarth’s periosteal elevator used for?
To raise mucoperiosteal flaps and for flap retraction
What are cryer’s elevators used for?
Dental elevator used to elevate roots and remove Inter radicular bone
What are Alice tissue forceps used for?
Used to hold soft tissues, can be used to pick up teeth
What are bone rongeurs used for?
Also called bone nibblers
Used to trim bone, remove spicules and septal
What is a mouth mirror used for?
Soft tissue retraction and indirect vision
What are straight probes used for?
Test for LA before XLA, test surfaces
What are collage tweezers used for?
Handle cotton ledger (with cross pattern)
To remove sequestrae
What are Swann Morton Scalpel Handels with blades used for?
Incision to raise a flap or biopsy
What is an S shaped cheek retractor used for?
Retract the cheek and soft tissues
What is an ash periosteal elevator used for?
Elevate soft tissue flaps and flap retraction
What is a Coupland’s elevator used for?
Comes in size 1, 2 and 3
Elevate tooth and root, create space for insertion of forceps
What are curved mosquito forceps used for?
Picking up sequestrae or fractured instruments or posts, artery clips
What are rake retractors used for?
Flap deflection
What are bone files used for?
Smoothing down rough bits of bone
What are Victoria curettes used for?
Remove granuloma or cyst from periapical tissue
Remove granulation tissue from socket
What are Mitchell’s trimmers used for?
Removing sharp bone spicules
Exposing canines
Apicectomy
What are straight Spencer wells forceps used for?
Picking up teeth, removing sharp bone spicules
What are Kilner needle holders used for?
Holding needle for suturing
What are Fickling forceps used for?
Holding needle for suturing
What are gillies toothed tissue forceps used
Manipulation of suture
What are curved iris scissors used for?
Cutting a suture
What are lack’s tongue depressors used for?
Depressing the tongue, retracting tissue
What are towel clips used for?
Clipping things on the tray table
