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Often overlooked, dental loupes are an essential piece of dental equipment; offering a wealth of benefits for both patient and practitioner. Here, we explore 5 of the top benefits dental loupes can bring to your practice. 1. Better Visual Acuity With the use of dental loupes, users can view all details of the oral cavity with enhanced magnification; improving your visual acuity and allowing for a more precise interpretation of the details. This can be particularly important in specialised fields which require a great deal of precision and accuracy, such as endodontics. For example, loupes provide accuracy when locating root canals; resulting in improved success rates for endodontic procedures   2. Improved Posture & Reduced Back Pain Maintaining an ergonomic posture is easy with a good fitting set of dental binocular loupes . Allowing the user to significantly improve their working conditions, dental loupes provide a magnified view of the mouth; eliminating t...

Decay is not the only cause of tooth destruction. Increasingly dentists are spending time restoring teeth that have lost their enamel due to erosion (damage from acid), attrition (tooth against tooth, nail biting, etc) and abrasion (e.g. vigorous tooth brushing). The increase in our average life span and the fact more teeth are being retained for longer means teeth are being exposed to these effects more than ever before. Acid erosion has been largely linked to the high consumption of soft drinks, both fruit juices and carbonated drinks. However, erosion is also seen in patients with symptoms of gastric reflux (heartburn) and in patients with eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. This is due to the highly acidic stomach contents coming into contact with the enamel of the teeth. Nocturnal tooth grinding is very common and might be exacerbated by stress and anxiety. It is the tooth to tooth contact that leads to the loss of tooth tissue. It can also lead to tooth ...

In stepper motor systems, if the available motor torque is not adequate to overcome the load, the motor will stall or skip over one or more pulses, creating a difference between the desired position and the actual position reached. To avoid this, stepper motors are often oversized to ensure there’s a large margin between the worst-case load torque and the motor’s available torque. But there is an alternative to oversizing the motor. By adding an encoder and operating in closed-loop mode, stepper motor systems can achieve position monitoring and control much like servo motors.   The most straightforward way to operate a stepper motor in closed-loop mode is to compare the theoretical position which should have been reached based on the number of steps, with the actual position reached based on the encoder feedback. If there is a difference between the target and actual positions, the controller initiates a correction move. While the above method is reactive, correcting...

Properly functioning handpieces are crucial to maintaining a pleasant, efficient dental practice. Unfortunately, insufficient maintenance is a leading cause of the premature failure of these devices. Keep this list in mind each time you clean and lubricate your coxo dental handpieces to ensure that they operate at top performance and last longer. Proper pressure Remember to follow the manufacturer’s instructions regarding air pressure specifications, found in the manual. Higher air pressure does not mean higher performance. Paying attention to the manufacturer’s specifications could avoid serious damage to the turbine, regardless of whether you are working with a highor low-speed device. Keep wipe-downs simple. Remember to wipe your handpiece down with warm water, or warm water with a mild detergent, prior to lubrication and sterilization. Using strong chemicals to do this is usually unnecessary, and may even cause problems with chemical interactions during steriliz...

The first step within the procedure is to require associate in nursing X-ray via portable dentalx ray unit to check the form of foundation canals and verify if there area unit and signs of infections in very close bone. your dental partitioner and dentist can then use anesthesia to numb the world close to the tooth physiological state might not be necessary, since the nerve is dead , however most dentist still put to sleep the world to form the patient additional relaxed and comfortable. Next to stay the world dry and freed from secretions throughout treatment, your dental practitioner can place rubber dam round the tooth. An access the hole can then be trained into the tooth.the pulp along side bacterium, the decayed nervous tissue and connected scrap is far from the tooth.The cleanup out method is accomplished victimization passageway files.A series of those files accelerating diameter area unit every later placed into the access hole and worked down the complete length ...

Rinsing the Oral Cavity The dental assistant will want to rinse the patient’s mouth frequently to clear the debris for the dentist and keep the patient comfortable. The two types of rinsing procedures used for moisture control by the dental assistant include limited-area rinsing and full-mouth rinsing. To complete the rinsing process, the dental assistant uses the air-water syringe. Limited-Area Rinsing – used when the dentist exits the mouth during a dental procedure and pauses for inspection. The dental assistant must do the rinsing in a way that doesn’t slow down the dental procedure. Full-Mouth Rinsing – used when the patient’s entire mouth needs rinsing. Full-mouth rinsing may be used after a long restorative procedure. Air-Water Syringe – connected to the dental unit and provides air, water or a combination of the two through a small sterile tip. The dental assistant will want to direct the syringe tip toward the tooth that the dentist is working on. They will also use...