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 Classification of
instruments used in
operative dentistry

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 Operative instruments

Hand instrument Rotary instruments

•Examination • High speed
•Scaling • Low speed
•cutting teeth and removing caries
•placing and condensing restoration
•carving and finishing
•miscellaneous

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 1-Hand Instruments

Examination

Examining instruments

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 1-Hand Instruments

Examination

Front surface Rear surface Different Type of Probes

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 1-Hand Instruments

Scaling

Scalers

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 1-Hand Instruments

Cutting teeth and removing caries

Excavators Chisels, hatchets, and hoes

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 1-Hand Instruments

Placing and condensing restoration

Flat plastic instrument St. St. plastic instrument

(Titanium coated )
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 1-Hand Instruments

Carving and finishing

Amalgam Carvers

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 1-Hand Instruments

Miscellaneous

Curing light

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 2-Rotary instruments
Handpieces

High speed Aerator Low speed

(air turbine)

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 2-Rotary instruments
Handpieces
High speed Aerator (air turbine)

Airotor handpiece
Fiber Optic Airotor handpiece

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 2-Rotary instruments
Handpieces
Low speed

Upper, straight and lower, contra angle

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 2-Rotary instruments
Burs

High speed Aerator Low speed Finishing and

polishing
(air turbine)

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 2-Rotary instruments
Burs
High speed Aerator
(air turbine)

Frication grip burs

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 2-Rotary instruments
Burs
Low speed

Latch type burs

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 2-Rotary instruments
Burs
Finishing burs

Finishing instruments for Finishing instruments for

amalgam composite

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 Using hand instruments

Pen grip Palm grip Finger grip

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