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Dental Hand Instruments - Coggle Diagram
Dental Hand Instruments
Design
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Working End
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points, blades, or smooth or serrated nibs
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Preset Cassettes Trays
instruments that are prepped, stored, and transported together
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Hand Cutting Instruments
Excavator
Spoon and black spoon are used for removing soft dentin, debris, and decay
Hoe
blade is perpendicular to handle and used to prepare walls and floors of tooth prep with push-pull action
Chisel
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breaks down enamel margin of tooth prep to form sharp lines and point angles and to place retention grooves
4 types: straight, bin-angle, wedelstaedt, angle-formed
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Examination Instruments
Mouth mirror
for indirect vision, retraction, reflecting light
Explorer
allows operator to find decay or calculus; pig tail, shepherds hook, or urban
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