Dental instruments are tools that dental professionals use to provide dental treatment. They include tools to examine, manipulate, treat, restore, and...

A dental drill or dental handpiece is a hand-held, mechanical instrument used to perform a variety of common dental procedures, including removing decay...

Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study,...

Dental floss is a cord of thin filaments used in interdental cleaning to remove food and dental plaque from between teeth or places a toothbrush has difficulty...

obstructing vision and becoming entangled in dental instruments during the procedure. There are several types of dental dam frames which have an array of purposes...

A dental aerosol is an aerosol that is produced from dental instrument, dental handpieces, three-way syringes, and other high-speed instruments. These...

The dental key is an instrument that was used in dentistry to extract diseased teeth. Before the era of antibiotics, dental extraction was often the method...

diagnosis of dental phobia are met. Dental phobia can include fear of dental procedures, dental environment or setting, fear of dental instruments or fear...

treatment. A dental handpiece ("drill") is used to remove large portions of decayed material from a tooth. A spoon, a dental instrument used to carefully...

more than 10,000. The dental assistant's role is often thought to be to support the dental operator by typically passing instruments during clinical procedures...

Dental plaque is a biofilm of microorganisms (mostly bacteria, but also fungi) that grows on surfaces within the mouth. It is a sticky colorless deposit...

Elevators (also known as luxators) are instruments used in dental extractions. They may be used to loosen teeth prior to forceps extraction, to remove...

coolant water jet from a dental instrument. Electrical – electric pulp testers. Mechanical–tactile – dental probe during dental examination, periodontal...

computerizing instruments and techniques in the dental office software assisting with clinical decision making. Patient records management dental software...

A face-bow is a dental instrument used in the field of prosthodontics. Its purpose is to transfer functional and aesthetic components from patient's mouth...

is a double-ended dental assessment instrument with mirror image working-ends. The 11/12 dental explorer should be considered a dental hygienists most important...

Periodontal scalers are dental instruments used in the prophylactic and periodontal care of teeth (most often human teeth), including scaling and root...

toothbrush. Calculus buildup can be removed with ultrasonic tools or dental hand instruments (such as a periodontal scaler). The word comes from Latin calculus...

Veterinary dentistry involves the application of dental care to animals, encompassing not only the prevention of diseases and maladies of the mouth, but...

Flagg created the first adjustable dental chair in the late 18th century, adapting a wooden chair by adding an instrument tray on one side, as well as a movable...

tapering octagonal spire by means of triangular faces Barbed broach, a dental instrument Chris Broach (born 1976), American musician in the band Braid Elise...

air blast, and tactile stimuli, such as tapping the tooth with a dental instrument. However, no difference was seen between nano-hydroxyapatite and other...

dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental...

Dudley Research Corp Impactor Dental Instrument In Wooden Case & Parts "United States Patent - Chiropractic Adjusting Instrument". United States Patent and...

decay (dental caries) from teeth using only hand instruments (dental hatchet and spoon-excavator) and placing a filling. It does not use rotary dental instruments...

endo- "inside" and odont- "tooth") is the dental specialty concerned with the study and treatment of the dental pulp. Endodontics encompasses the study...

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...

Practice of the Dental Hygienist (first edition published in 1959). The dental instrument known as the Wilkins/Tufts Explorer was named after her. Born in Chelmsford...

dental implant (also known as an endosseous implant or fixture) is a prosthesis that interfaces with the bone of the jaw or skull to support a dental...

whereas only qualified equine dental technicians or vets may remove teeth, rasp fractured teeth and use motorized dental instruments. There has been a long history...