DENTAL INSTRUMENTS: NEWS

1. Foreword

In recent years, in dental hand instruments field we have observed a lack of novelty useful for the dentist and his team. Some geometrical change of the working tips, variants to the geometries of the handles, use of different material of construction, some variations in the form and retention of the handles but nothing more.

2. Simplicity and effectiveness

Crisis, decline in marked demand, manufacturing costs: many factors have contributed not to push big news.

An Italian company presented a hadle that brakes the mold of existing ones. With an eye to the safety of the dentist, assistant and hygenist, has realized a handle longer than the existing ones on the market today.

Tradizionally the handles of the instruments that put at risk the operator cuts and punctures like scalers, curettes, probes are 100-105 mm length. In rare case 110 mm length. This new handle is about 115 mm length considering the external steel parts, on which the ends are fixed.

3. Characteristics

The design is not limited to a longer handle: the handle is made of a plastic material which doesn’t contain toxic component recently banned such as the parabens, but doesn’t contain even PVC, phtalates and many other toxic components.

Not only that, the tips are inserted in steel inserts which are co-moulded in the plastic material but without being totally drowned. Part of them emerge sas to allow a perfect cleaning and sterilization of the instrument.

Diagram summarizes the characteristics:

The criterion of assembly of the tips is innovative, too. The handle contains no metal ensuring the typical lightness and manageability of plastic instruments. The socket is favored by a diameter of 10.5 mm.

These three huge advantages have been obtained simply by lenghtening the handle and reviewing the criteria for entering tips as a simple operation but up to now no one had ever put into practice.

Even those who use sterilization boxes can use the longer instruments with no problem by putting them in the longer side or, just at the time of repurchase, buying boxes suitable for such use, for example the ones that Hu-Friedy manufactures since a lot.

4.Where to find them?

In Italy there are two companies that joined this project: QUASAR DENTAL EQUPMENT www.quasardental.com from Legnano (MI) already known for the best quality of rubber polishers and for its silicon universal base called Nest and Den-Tag www.dentag.com from Maniago (PN) already known for its very good quality and range of dental instruments.

There instruments can be purchased from dental deposits or you can simply contact the above mentioned manufacturers to learn about the place of purchase and prices.

5.Conclusions

Instruments with split ends may injure the operator’s hand or brake the glove (with the opposite tips of the working one). The possibility of injury is during use, handling or passing the instrument between Assistant-Dentist-Assistant.

As an additional preventive action Today the dentist can choose an instrument with a longer handle instead of a “traditional lenght” one.

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INSTRUMENTS CONFORM TO EUROPEAN SHARPS/INJURIES DIRECTIVE - 2010/32/UE

1. Foreword

In recent years, in dental hand instruments field we have observed a lack of novelty useful for the dentist and his team. Some geometrical change of the working tips, variants to the geometries of the handles, use of different material of construction, some variations in the form and retention of the handles but nothing more.

2. Simplicity and effectiveness

Crisis, decline in marked demand, manufacturing costs: many factors have contributed not to push big news.

An Italian company presented a hadle that brakes the mold of existing ones. With an eye to the safety of the dentist, assistant and hygenist, has realized a handle longer than the existing ones on the market today.

Tradizionally the handles of the instruments that put at risk the operator cuts and punctures like scalers, curettes, probes are 100-105 mm length. In rare case 110 mm length. This new handle is about 115 mm length considering the external steel parts, on which the ends are fixed.

3. Characteristics

The design is not limited to a longer handle: the handle is made of a plastic material which doesn’t contain toxic component recently banned such as the parabens, but doesn’t contain even PVC, phtalates and many other toxic components.

Not only that, the tips are inserted in steel inserts which are co-moulded in the plastic material but without being totally drowned. Part of them emerge sas to allow a perfect cleaning and sterilization of the instrument.

Diagram summarizes the characteristics:

The criterion of assembly of the tips is innovative, too. The handle contains no metal ensuring the typical lightness and manageability of plastic instruments. The socket is favored by a diameter of 10.5 mm.

These three huge advantages have been obtained simply by lenghtening the handle and reviewing the criteria for entering tips as a simple operation but up to now no one had ever put into practice.

Even those who use sterilization boxes can use the longer instruments with no problem by putting them in the longer side or, just at the time of repurchase, buying boxes suitable for such use, for example the ones that Hu-Friedy manufactures since a lot.

4.Where to find them?

In Italy there are two companies that joined this project: QUASAR DENTAL EQUPMENT www.quasardental.com from Legnano (MI) already known for the best quality of rubber polishers and for its silicon universal base called Nest and Den-Tag www.dentag.com from Maniago (PN) already known for its very good quality and range of dental instruments.

There instruments can be purchased from dental deposits or you can simply contact the above mentioned manufacturers to learn about the place of purchase and prices.

5.Conclusions

Instruments with split ends may injure the operator’s hand or brake the glove (with the opposite tips of the working one). The possibility of injury is during use, handling or passing the instrument between Assistant-Dentist-Assistant.

As an additional preventive action Today the dentist can choose an instrument with a longer handle instead of a “traditional lenght” one.

DENTAL INSTRUMENTS: NEWS

1. Foreword

In recent years, in dental hand instruments field we have observed a lack of novelty useful for the dentist and his team. Some geometrical change of the working tips, variants to the geometries of the handles, use of different material of construction, some variations in the form and retention of the handles but nothing more.

2. Simplicity and effectiveness

Crisis, decline in marked demand, manufacturing costs: many factors have contributed not to push big news.

An Italian company presented a hadle that brakes the mold of existing ones. With an eye to the safety of the dentist, assistant and hygenist, has realized a handle longer than the existing ones on the market today.

Tradizionally the handles of the instruments that put at risk the operator cuts and punctures like scalers, curettes, probes are 100-105 mm length. In rare case 110 mm length. This new handle is about 115 mm length considering the external steel parts, on which the ends are fixed.

3. Characteristics

The design is not limited to a longer handle: the handle is made of a plastic material which doesn’t contain toxic component recently banned such as the parabens, but doesn’t contain even PVC, phtalates and many other toxic components.

Not only that, the tips are inserted in steel inserts which are co-moulded in the plastic material but without being totally drowned. Part of them emerge sas to allow a perfect cleaning and sterilization of the instrument.

Diagram summarizes the characteristics:

The criterion of assembly of the tips is innovative, too. The handle contains no metal ensuring the typical lightness and manageability of plastic instruments. The socket is favored by a diameter of 10.5 mm.

These three huge advantages have been obtained simply by lenghtening the handle and reviewing the criteria for entering tips as a simple operation but up to now no one had ever put into practice.

Even those who use sterilization boxes can use the longer instruments with no problem by putting them in the longer side or, just at the time of repurchase, buying boxes suitable for such use, for example the ones that Hu-Friedy manufactures since a lot.

4.Where to find them?

In Italy there are two companies that joined this project: QUASAR DENTAL EQUPMENT www.quasardental.com from Legnano (MI) already known for the best quality of rubber polishers and for its silicon universal base called Nest and Den-Tag www.dentag.com from Maniago (PN) already known for its very good quality and range of dental instruments.

There instruments can be purchased from dental deposits or you can simply contact the above mentioned manufacturers to learn about the place of purchase and prices.

5.Conclusions

Instruments with split ends may injure the operator’s hand or brake the glove (with the opposite tips of the working one). The possibility of injury is during use, handling or passing the instrument between Assistant-Dentist-Assistant.

As an additional preventive action Today the dentist can choose an instrument with a longer handle instead of a “traditional lenght” one.

Related articles> Click here

DENTAL DEVICE PROMISE PAIN-FREE TOOTH REPAIR

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Scientists develop a dental treatment that could vastly reduce the need for unpleasant trips to the dentists, with teeth painlessly repaired using electrical pulses to re-grow natural tooth enamel. Matthew Stock reports. Video provided by Reuters.

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STRUMENTI PER ODONTOIATRIA - NOVITÀ

1. Premessa

Nel campo degli strumenti dentali manuali in questi ultimi anni abbiamo osservato una assenza di novità utili all’odontoiatra e alla sua equipe. Qualche modifica geometrica alle punte lavoranti, varianti alle geometrie delle impugnature, impiego di diversi materiali di costruzione, qualche variazione nelle forme e ritenzioni dei manici, ma niente di più.

2. L’uovo di colombo

La crisi, il calo della richiesta di mercato, i costi di fabbricazione, molteplici fattori hanno contribuito a non spingere verso grandi novità.

Un azienda italiana ha presentato un manico che rompe gli schemi di quelli esistenti. Con un occhio rivolto alla sicurezza dell’odontoiatra, assistente, igienista, ha realizzato un manico semplicemente di lunghezza superiore rispetto ai manici esistenti oggi sul mercato.

Come dire… “l’uovo di Colombo”.

Tradizionalmente i manici degli strumenti che pongono l’operatore a rischio tagli e punture, come curettes, scalers, sonde, sono lunghi 100 – 105 millimetri e in rarissimi casi 110. Questo nuovo manico è circa 115 considerando anche le parti esterne in acciaio, parti sulle quali sono fissate le punte.

3. Le caratteristiche

La progettazione non si è limitata a questo, il manico è di un materiale plastico che non contiene componenti tossici banditi di recente come i parabeni, ma non contiene neppure PVC, ftalati e molti altri componenti tossici.

Non solo, le punte sono inserite in inserti di acciaio che a sua volta sono inseriti nel materiale plastico ma senza essere totalmente affogati, parte di essi emerge da permettere una perfetta pulizia e sterilizzazione dello strumento.

Lo schema ne riassume le caratteristiche:

E’ innovativo anche il criterio di assemblaggio delle punte. Il manico non contiene parti metalliche garantendo la tipica leggerezza e maneggiabilità degli strumenti in materiale plastico, la presa è favorita da un diametro di 10,5mm.

Questi tre enormi vantaggi sono stati ottenuti semplicemente allungando il manico e rivedendo i criteri di inserimento delle punte un operazione semplice ma che fino ad oggi nessuno aveva mai messo in pratica.

Anche chi fa uso delle cassette di sterilizzazione può utilizzarli senza problemi ponendo gli strumenti nel lato più lungo o semplicemente, all’atto del riacquisto, comprando cassette adatte a tale uso come ad esempio le cassette che Hu-Friedy fabbrica già da tempo.

4.Dove trovarli?

In Italia ci sono due aziende che hanno sposato questa progettazione e più precisamente la QUASAR DENTAL EQUPMENT www.quasardental.com di Legnano (MI) già conosciuta per l’ottima qualità dei gommini lucidanti e per la versatilità delle sue basi universali in silicone e la Den-Tag www.dentag.com di Maniago (PN) già conosciuta per la qualità e gamma di strumenti dentali.

Questi strumenti si possono acquistare presso i depositi dentali ad ogni modo è sufficiente contattare i rispettivi fabbricanti per conoscere luogo di acquisto e prezzi.

5.Conclusioni

Gli strumenti con punte doppie possono ferire la mano dell’operatore o lacerarne il guanto (con la punta opposta a quella lavorante). La possibilità di ferirsi c’è durante l’uso, il maneggiamento o il passaggio dello strumento fra Assistente-Dentista-Assistente.

Come azione preventiva aggiuntiva oggi il dentista può scegliere uno strumento con un manico più lungo anziché con manico di lunghezza “tradizionale”.