rotations/second range
4000-6000
checklist for handpiece safety
sterile and fit for use
mirrors
viewing intra orally, soft tissue retraction and protection
Probes
No6 is straight
caries detection, point focus, surface testing, retraction
CPITN probe
BPE
black bands 3.5-5.5mm
ball ended 0.5mm
PCP-12 Prpbe
periodontal pocket chart
black bands 3-6mm and 9-12mm
Tweezers
for handling small objects
either sugrical locking tweezers or college tweezers
excavators (spoon or round)
caries excavation, material removal and manipulation, shaping and contouring of restorations
3 sizes
plastics and flat plastics
manipulation of shapeable filling material (composite, GI)
condensor
condensing amalgam, manipulate composite
standard plugger and lustra amalgam
carvers
carving amalgam, shaping composite
chisels
finishing cavo-surface margin angles, removal of unsupported enamel prisms
Blacks
Gingival Margin Trimmers
Blacks 84 (straight)
burnishers
finishing amalgam restorations/manipulating composite
applicators
placement of lining material - thymozin instruments
spheno-occipital synchondrosis
open or closed?
closes by 16-25 years
occipital bone - centres of ossification fused or separate?
fused by school children
anterior fontanelle - fused or closed?
soft bit on babys head
98% closed by 2
metopic suture present or absent?
usually disappears by 6
mastoid process
disinct or indisinct?
distinct at about 2 years old
tympanic ring or plate?
starts as tympanic ring but lengthens to plate
external auditius meatus
mandible - mental symphsis fibrous or ossified?
unfused centre of mandible
mandible angle between body and ramus - obtuse or markedly obtuse?
starts of markedly and gets less so
until teeth lost
cavo-surface margins approx
90o
line angles
2 points