Details:
A fine cutting instrument designed to be used in a sideways cutting motion to sever the periodontal ligament. Lateral force or elevating will bend the blade and render the warranty void.
Features:
- Used to luxate and elevate fractured apical thirds of maxillary anterior teeth by wedging action along side the root surface.
- Uses lever and wedge principle.
- Biangulated, sharp, straight working tip.
- Used to remove root tip from socket.
- Used first as a wedge to dislodge the root tip & then as a lever to remove it from the socket.
- Used to loosen the teeth from the periodontal ligement and ease extraction.
Choice of Elevators:
The selection from wide range of elevation instruments based on the following factors:
- Remaining Tooth Structure.
- Space Available.
- Availability and Position of Solid Fulcrum.
- Direction of the required Movement.
Indication of Use:
- Reflect Mucoperiosteal membrane.
- Luxate, remove teeth which cannot be engaged by forceps.
- Remove carious or fractured roots.
- Loosen teeth prior to application of forceps.
- Split teeth which have grooves cut into them.
- Remove intra radicular bone.
Elevation of Teeth:
Wedge Elevator between tooth and bone at neck of tooth and rotate handle with slight twisting, quarter-turn movement.
Observe for Tooth movement. Do not use excessive force to avoid.
- Crown Fracture.
- Loosen Adjacent Teeth.
Wedge Elevator between tooth and bone at neck of tooth and rotate handle with slight twisting, quarter-turn movement.
- 1 to 3 Year Conditional Warranty
- 4000 time autoclavable
- Easy to use