Details:
To loosen the tissue surrounding the tooth, used as a lever for teeth and roots. Root fragments
Features:
- This is delicate elevator
- Available as straight and curved ( paired )
- It is used to luxate the teeth in the maxilla
- Since the handle is flat, the amount of the force against the bone will decrease ( reduce the incidence of the fracture )
- Resemble hockey stick
- Blade is straight and at an angle to the shank
- Blade has convex and flat surface
- Flat surface is working end and has transverse serrations on it for better contact with root stumps.
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- Â 4000 time autoclavable
- Â Easy to use
