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The document provides an overview of various dental instruments and their uses, including scalers, periodontal probes, and mirrors. It discusses the importance of proper technique in scaling and probing to assess gingival health and measure periodontal conditions. Additionally, it highlights specific tools for different dental procedures and their applications in treating gingivitis and periodontitis.

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Instruments

The document provides an overview of various dental instruments and their uses, including scalers, periodontal probes, and mirrors. It discusses the importance of proper technique in scaling and probing to assess gingival health and measure periodontal conditions. Additionally, it highlights specific tools for different dental procedures and their applications in treating gingivitis and periodontitis.

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blade

Anterior
interdental/
universal
-
angle supragingival
sealer

handle -
terminal end is parallel to

the long axis of the look

scalers are
triangular
>
-

in shape transversy
(cross section)

·
posterior interdental spragingival scales

>
-
right & left ??
- hold it straight,

if the cutting edge is on


your right
>
- Right posterior (114 awadrant)

if the witting edge is on


your left side

>
- left posterior (C43 quadrant)
·
Month mirror-retraction , vision & ilumination

the mirror used is a convex mirror

· periodontal probe (Willium's prof) -


to measure
gingival
pockets width of gingiva (helps
,
to classify gingivitis &
periodontitis)
Linvented in North
Carolina)
Accessing gingival recession Measure attached width
gingiva
- -

· Sickle staped (large/small) -> small for anterior caranus

large fr posterior calcus

oBilid scales -
used to clean the
cingulum

>
- removal of supragingival calculus
in fight anterior embrasures.

(mandibular incisors)
· that surface scaler

>
-
the blunt side should be
towards me

papillar & the sharp end away


from the
papilla .

>
-
two ends for leftIn right side

---
·
Nabers probe (furcation probe

>
- to measure and locate

calibrations -
3-6-9-12 mm

- Thin and luxible to adapt into

narrow furcation spaces.


surfaces/sites
-

mesial -mesial
of a both
>
-
mid-buccal

⑥ migual
Invisal
Distal

localised
giugiviris/ -

was than 30 % sites are

peridontitis involved

furcation-defects of a multirootedtooth

Marginal epithelium
normal sulcus-2mm

more than 2mm-pathology

(gingival podaet)
beyond mucogingival -
periodontal
junction pocket.

working of periodontal probe


parts of periodontium
- transiste wived
chape
>
- use -
to clear the

gingival sulcus

>
-
subgingival scaling
-
has rount be instead of
sharp hip.

Shephard's Hook

stains
fluorosis
tetracycline stains
a

ch e
3

·
⑧ D

. 2

2 D 2

- aadh
-

=>
·M -

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> -
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