摘要:
A set of instruments for boring of radicular dental canals, in which the diameter D1 of each instrument, measured at the root of the pointed end portion thereof, varies according to a geometrical progression as well as the diameter D2 of each instrument measured at the root of the cutting edges. Hence, the variation is more pronounced for the diameters D2, larger than the diameters D1, than it is for the diameters D1. The conicity of the stem of the instruments increases in this manner from one instrument to another, so as to permit a the dentist to form the radicular canals with a specially funnelled shape which is best suited for some obturations, especially those to be treated with gutta-percha.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an endodontic instrument for rapid mechanical widening of the canal mouth and rectification of the first two thirds of the dental root canals. It comprises a head (2, 3, 4) and an elongated conical body or tine (1) joined to the head (2, 3, 4) with a neck part (5). The tine (1) is disaligned with respect to the head (2, 3, 4) in that the neck part (5) has a straight portion (5a), coaxial with the head, and a portion (5b) with an axis which is oblique and coplanar in relation to the axes of the tine and head.
摘要:
A method of fabricating an endodontic instrument by a machining operation is disclosed, and wherein a wire-like rod composed of a titanium alloy is advanced past a rotating grinding wheel at a relatively slow feed rate, with a sufficient depth of cut to remove all of the material on a given surface without over grinding a previously ground surface, and with the grinding wheel rotating at a relatively slow surface speed. The disclosed method is able to efficiently produce endodontic instruments having a high degree of flexibility, high resistance to torsional breakage, and with sharp cutting edges along the working length.
摘要:
A dental root-canal preparation instrument includes a grip and a tool contained therein. The grip has a body fitted at its periphery with axially spaced zones preferably in the form of rings projecting above the periphery of the body. The rings are made of silicone rubber to increase grippability when manually grasping the preparation instrument.
摘要:
Endodontic files which provide constant dentin volume removal from file to file based on the actual volume of dentin removed from file to file. Each file removes exactly the same increase in volume as its predecessor. In this manner, a clinician may use each file in a sequential manner from smallest to largest without the need to alternate sizes or rely on subjective factors. Correspondingly, the time required to prepare a patient's root canal drops as a function of the reduced need to interchange sizes along the way and provide a clinical method of preparing root canals that relies on objective clinical techniques.
摘要:
An endodontic file comprising a handle and an elongate cutting portion, a distal end remote from the handle and formed to have a first file portion which is adjacent the distal end and has the physical form of a k file, and a second file portion, which is located between the first portion and the handle and has the physical form of a Hedstrom file.
摘要:
An endodontic reamer or file instrument for cleaning and shaping root canals includes a shank having a tapered working portion extending along a section of the shank length to a leading end. A pilot is attached to the working portion adjacent the leading end and is smaller in diameter than is the working portion at the leading end. The working portion includes at least one continuous helical flute which spirals along its length and a helical land at the periphery of the working portion which extends between adjacent flutes. The working portion also includes at least one lip adjacent the pilot which has a cutting edge which lies generally in a radial plane of the shank, and each flute which spirals along the length of the working portion toward the leading end terminates at the cutting edge of a corresponding lip so that as the instrument is moved longitudinally through a root canal, root canal tissue disposed to one side of the pilot is exposed to the cutting edge of the working portion.
摘要:
In root canal preparation, there is provided a smooth sided pilot ended endodontic K-type file, a K-type reamer file, a H-type Hedstroem file, an S-type file, and a R-type file (rhomboid), with the safe end of the instrument or file measured from D1 from 1-3 mm before the cutting edges are developed on all types of endodontic cutting instruments and on all sizes from 06-140.The smooth sided pilot end of the apex file can be incrementally increased based upon the increasing size of the instruments. For example, #15=1 mm smooth sided pilot end, #20=2 mm safe end, #25=3 mm smooth sided pilot end, etc. This is to be used for ease with the step back preparation technique. The smooth sided pilot ended apex file instrument has the ability to act as pathfinder into the root canal without damaging the apex portion during this phase.The smooth sided pilot ended endodontic file of this invention avoids forcing debris and filling material out the apex and creates a proper apical stop of proper retention and resistance. The smooth sided pilot ended endodontic file of this invention is necessary to achieve the critical phase of root canal preparation.
摘要:
Differences in the diameters of successive cutting instruments, either hand- or engine-powered, within sets of instruments described herein progress sequentially by constant percentages of increase, rather than by constant linear increase as is currently the practice in the dental manufacturing industry.
摘要:
In one embodiment, a condenser instrument for thermomechanically condensing a thermoplastic material, such as gutta percha, in the extirpated root canal of a tooth through rotation of the instrument is disclosed. The condenser instrument includes a shank having a tapered working portion along part of its length. The working portion includes a single, continuous helical flute defining a continuously helical shoulder having a negative rake angle. The shoulder is generally directed downwardly toward the tip end of the shank. A wide land is formed at the periphery of the shoulder. In a second embodiment, a remover instrument for removing a thermoplastic material, such as gutta percha, from a previously obturated root canal of a tooth through rotation of the remover instrument is disclosed. The remover instrument includes a shank having a tapered working portion along part of its length. The working portion includes a single, continuous helical flute defining a continuous helical shoulder having a negative rake angle. The shoulder is generally directed upwardly away from the tip of the shank. A wide land is formed at the periphery of the shoulder.