Dental instruments are the tools that dental professionals use to provide dental treatment. They include tools to examine, manipulate, restore and remove teeth and surrounding oral

Mouth

The mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food andsaliva. The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane epithelium lining the inside of the mouth....

 structures.

Standard instruments are the instruments used to examine, restore and extract teeth and manipulate tissues.

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Examination instruments

These tools allow the dental professional to manipulate tissues, to allow better visual access during treatment or during dental examination.

Mirror

Dental mirrors are used by the dentist

Dentist

A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...

 or dental auxiliary to view a mirror image of the teeth in locations of the mouth where visibility is difficult or impossible. They also are useful for reflecting light onto desired surfaces, and with retraction of soft tissues to improve access or vision.

Retractors

• Mouth prop
  Mouth prop
  A mouth prop is a wedge-shaped implement used in dentistry for dentists working with children and other patients who have difficulty keeping their mouths open wide and steady during a procedure, or during procedures where the patient is sedated. It has a rubber like texture and is typically made...
  
  
• Dental mirror
• Cheek retractor
• Tongue retractor
• Lip retractor

Dental drills

Dental handpieces come in many varying types which include: High speed air driven (also known as an airotor), slow speed, friction grip, surgical hand piece.
Straight handpiece with a sharp bur.

Burs

Dental Burs cutting surface are either made of a multifluted tungsten carbide, a diamond coated tip or a stainless steel multi fluted rosehead.
There are many different types and classifications of burs some of the most common are: the round bur (sizes ¼ to 10) or inverted cone (sizes 33½ to 90L).
Burs are also classified by the type of shank. For instance a latch type, or right angle bur is only used in the slow speed handpiece with contra-angle attachment. Long shank or shaft is only used in the slow speed when the contra-angle is not in use, and finally a friction grip bur which is a small bur used only in the high-speed handpiece.

There are many bur shapes that are utilized in various specific procedures.

Operative burs

Flat fissure, pear-shaped, football, round, tapered, flame, chamfer, bevel, end cut,
bud bur, steel, inverted cone, diamond, brown stone, and greenstone.

Excavators

• Spoon excavator: which is used to remove soft carious decay
• Half hollenbach: this instrument is usually used to test for overhangs or flash
• Chisels:
  • Straight - bevels the cavosurface margin and used in 3, 4 and 5 classifications of cavities on the maxillary.
  • Wedelstaedt - only used in the anterior for classes 3, 4 and 5 as well.
  • Bin Angle - this is held in a pen grasp and used for class 2 maxillary only.wheel shape bur

Burnishers

• Flat plastic
• Ball burnisher
• Beavertail burnisher
• Cone burnisher
• Pear shaped burnisher

Curettes

Types include:

• Universal curettes - these have a semicircular tip used at 90° to the tooth root surface.
• Gracey curettes - semicircle tipped, but one edge lower than the other, used at 70° to the tooth root surface.

Removable prosthodontics

• Spatula
• Fox plane
• Willis gauge
• Bunsen burner
• Wax knife
• Le cron
• Calipers

Dental forceps

• Cow horns
• Upper universals
• Upper universal fine
• Lower universals
• Upper canine
• Upper straight long
• Upper straight short
• Upper right molar
• Upper left molar
• Upper wisdom tooth
• Greyhound
• Root
• Bayonet

Elevators

• Narrow and wide, straight and curved luxators
• Couplands elevator
• Warwick James elevator
• Cryer elevator
• Periosteal elevator
• Root-tip pick elevator
• Potts elevator
• Cogswell-A elevator

Endodontic instruments

• K-file
• Hedstrom file
• Gates glidden
• Finger spreader
• Lentulo spiral
  Lentulo spiral
  A Lentulo spiral is a dental instrument used to properly distribute root canal sealer and cement evenly throughout the root canal system, as when performing endodontic therapy or a post and core cementation....
  
  
• Endodontic explorer
• Apex locator
• Microscope

See also

• Dentistry
  Dentistry
  Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the human body. Dentistry is widely considered...
  
  
• Dentist
  Dentist
  A dentist, also known as a 'dental surgeon', is a doctor that specializes in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist's supporting team aides in providing oral health services...
  
   & dental auxiliary