Featured Instrumentation Articles

8 realistic uses for lasers in surgical therapy - DentistryIQ
... removal — A laser should be used adjunctively with an ultrasonic or piezo instrument. ... important to understand that a laser does not replace sound biology ...

Relegating dental sharpening devices to the bottom drawer ...
... on performance and durability of hand and ultrasonic instruments. ... it comes to instrument purchases, remember ... nanotechnology, those pesky sharpening stones and ...

Nonsurgical Treatment Modalities - Woman Dentist Journal
... Choices in ultrasonic technology. ... Microultrasonic inserts with blades may replace hand curettes for ... cotton pliers or a Laschal pressure-sensitive instrument. ...

Will You Be the 100th Monkey? - RDH
... ultrasonic rather than a hand instrument to remove ... moving away from the hand instruments because the ... Ultrasonic scaling is not ‘Scaling for Dummies.’ It is ...

Assisted periodontal therapy: a new dental hygiene paradigm ...
... of a lack of time, dull instruments, or the ... when new models and theories replace outdated ones ... dental hygienists and dentists in ultrasonic instrumentation and ...

I Scream for Ice Cream - RDH
... course that includes information about ultrasonic scaling or power ... are more likely to replace worn out ... July 2007; Herremans K. Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement ...

Implants vs. endodontics - Dental Economics
... and empirical bias must never replace case selection ... and the success of periodontal therapy in regard ... rotary nickel titanium instruments, improved appreciation ...

Just like Rosa Parks - RDH
... clients actually preferred manually tuned ultrasonic scaling with specialized ... and unwrap your bagged instruments, don’t ... curettes along with a sharpening stone ...

MATERIALS PRODUCT NEWS - Dental Office
... a second pair of hands or additional instruments. ... ComfortView allows for visual and instrument access in ... This means less-frequent sharpening, less hand fatigue ...

A Winning Combination - RDH
... smaller diameter mist replace heavy water ... a magnetostrictive and a piezoelectric ultrasonic scaling instrument. ... substance in scaling with various instruments. ...

Wild, Wild West - RDH
... finger every five years and replace it with ... dental hygiene care and periodontal therapy since graduating ... is removed using hand instruments, sometimes together ...

Getting rid of the cleaning lady image - RDH
... are cutting-edge, or in need of a little sharpening. ... biofilm to the same degree with hand instruments. ... The instrument of choice in periodontal debridement is ...

A Twist on Pain Reduction - Woman Dentist Journal
... Periodontal therapy can help stabilize and restore periodontal health ... Procedures to replace missing teeth with dental ... rooms, and all instruments are autoclaved ...

The great equalizer - RDH
... the preceding hygienist had reshaped the instruments with improper sharpening, also evidenced ... They'll start doing periodontal therapy on patients who don ...

Equipment Product News - Dental Office
... Use existing X-ray equipment — just replace film with a ... Instrument washer disinfects as it cleans. ... rinsing and drying — making the instruments ready for ...

3 things a matrix system must do to be successful - DentistryIQ
... So in a quest to minimize the amount of trimming we need to do with high-speed instrumentation after the composite is cured, we search for a better matrix. ...

3 tips to make more money without compromising patient results ...
... Dr. Musikant holds 19 patents for co-inventing revolutionary endodontic obturation, instrumentation, post and composite systems. ...

Bucco-lingual 'dimple' technique for removing full-crown and cast ...
... Often, the restorative material(s) must be cut completely through with high-speed rotary instrumentation and then pried off with a narrow-ended hand instrument ...