When at the dentist for your routine checkup, you will come into contact with a variety of dentist tools. The most common dentist tools you will come across are:
Dental pick
Polisher
Dental mirrors
Bleaching And Whitening Dentist Tools
These dentist tools can be both for office and home use. Many times after an office cleaning, the dentist will give patients a dental cleaning tool to take home with them in the form of a new toothbrush or whitening agent. Some of the dentist tools used at the office can include the following:
Bleaching trays
Block out mini tip refills
Block out resin kits
In office bleaching kits
Dentist Bonding Agents
Another type of dentist tool is the bonding agent. These tools are used to bond veneers to teeth among other uses. Some of the dentist tools included in this category are:
Extraoral adhesives
Applicators
Mixing wells
Muti-component bonding agents
Etching tips
Ceramic repair kits
Dentist Aspirating Materials
A third type of dentist tool that the dentist will use commonly are called aspirating materials. These dentist tools are used to clear the saliva from the work area and move liquids around easily. Some common tools in this category are:
Aspirator cleaners
Aspirator tips
HVE tips
Saliva ejectors
Dentist Cameras
A recent device which has now become a common dentist tool is the camera. Cameras are being used to take photographs of your teeth. The photos help the dentist in the following ways:
Helping to identify problems within the mouth
Help in creating a game plan for correcting the problem
Help to show the difference between the appearance of the area before and after the problem was corrected.
Unseen And Unnoticed Dentist Tools
While at the dentist office, you may not take notice of every dentist tool being used around you at the time. Here are some often unseen and unnoticed tools dentists use:
Dental ball bearings – these are what keep the dental handpiieces functioning properly.
Office equipment and supplies – these help handle administrative tasks such as keeping files, filing forms, cost management and bookkeeping.
So while you may not see a variety of dentist tools each time you visit the dentist office, they are there and will be providing some use to the dentist during the course of the daily operations. Nearly half of all dentist tools are disposable and may only be used once because of the need for sterile settings as in any doctors office.
