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2. Elevator (dental) - Wikipedia

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   The fulcrum is usually the crest of the socket bone; however, adjacent teeth can be used if they are also to be extracted. The contact point on the tooth or root surface where force is delivered is described as the purchase point, and the position of this can be idealised by cutting bone or sectioning teeth. With root picks especially, a slot ...

3. Dental instrument - Wikipedia

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   Then, a pair of pincers would do the rest of the job, wiggling the tooth out of the gum until the extraction was complete. [8] The functionality of today's dental forceps come from the need to remove items from the mouth such as the cotton balls dentists place next to a patient's teeth or the rubber bands a patient needs for their braces. [ 9 ]

4. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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   A dental extraction (also referred to as tooth extraction, exodontia, exodontics, or informally, tooth pulling) is the removal of teeth from the dental alveolus (socket) in the alveolar bone.

5. Dental key - Wikipedia

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   illustration demonstrating the use of the dental key for extracting teeth. 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 of choice to treat dental infections , and extraction instruments date back several centuries.

6. Coupland's elevators - Wikipedia

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   There are three sizes usually used sequentially for dental extraction. Coupland's elevators (also known as chisels ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] are instruments commonly used for dental extraction . They are used in sets of three each of increasing size and are used to split multi-rooted teeth and are inserted between the bone and tooth roots and rotated to ...

7. Dental drill - Wikipedia

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   A dental drill or dental handpiece is a hand-held, mechanical instrument used to perform a variety of common dental procedures, including removing decay, polishing fillings, performing cosmetic dentistry, and altering prostheses.