With time, endodontic instruments evolved into more advanced and accurate pieces of equipment, intending to aid the clinicians to work more efficiently during dental procedures. The endodontic specialization is a beautiful and complex branch of dentistry, with special care for small and specific dental measurements, raising the importance for detailed and controlled instruments capable to supply every need from the professional to provide high-quality dental treatment for their patients.
Currently, endodontic instruments such as Electric Pulp Testers, Endo Motors, Dental Caries Detectors, Gutta Percha Cutters and Dental Apex Locators are part of every endodontist practice around the world, simplifying professional dental practice tremendously.
Endodontic instruments, as well as any other specialized dental instrument, are now technological equipment necessary for every clinician’s life. Years ago, the endodontist obtained their measurement manually using rules, and the dental root preparation was achieved through manual endodontic file preparation, requiring strong fingers and sometimes leaving the patient with lockjaw and temporomandibular joint pain due to prolonged treatment sessions. The complex and intricate root canal of some molars represented a challenge for the specialists making a successful treatment dependant on the endodontist dexterity and knowledge on dental anatomy and root morphology. Something that prevails until now, but that has been vastly improved thanks to the advances in the technology.
Nowadays, endodontic instruments like the Electric Pulp Tester are essential pieces of equipment, and an invaluable diagnostic tool used by the endodontic specialist to obtain the thermal response of the dental nerve and the pulp facing cold temperatures, providing the professional with crucial information about the vitality of the pulp being evaluated, and giving them the aid to obtain a correct dental pulp diagnosis and endodontic treatment. Even though this simple step might be seen as a minor subject, pulp’s response and vitality are one of the most discussed and important phases during an endodontic treatment plan establishment. Without a correct pulp vitality status, the professional may conduct unnecessary treatments, leading to later consequences on the patient’s oral health. Our Electric Pulp Tester, is an adjustable, easy to use, elegant, autoclavable, effective and comfortable equipment designed for gentle test with the best and clearer results possible.
Other endodontic instruments like Endo Motors, are great advantages inside the endodontic practice. The workflow and rhythm of a practitioner change drastically after obtaining and adapt to an Endo Motor. These dental handpieces provide the clinician the ability to prepare and shape the root canal systems with adjustable, programmable, precise, and constant torque, allowing the dentist to use endodontic files while reducing procedure times and decreasing the file breakage risk. Some of them are designed and programmed with automatic reverse functions, adjustable settings, and apex locators integrated into their systems, increasing greatly the success rate for almost every endodontic procedure. In most cases, the clinician has to adapt to their usage, but the process is quite short and effective if it's done correctly. Nonetheless, the usage of manual endodontic files is not over. On the contrary, Endo Motors represents a significant improvement in the patient's treatment and comfort, aided by manual and traditional endodontic files, allowing shorter visits and more precise root canal preparation.
Endodontic instruments like the Dental Caries Detectors, on the other hand, aid the clinician by providing caries detention through especial lightwaves and googles, exposing the cariogenic activity on the explored surface. With painless, harmless, and quick function, the equipment allows the professional to detect caries lesions effectively on any dental surface, even decayed teeth. Also, they represent an alternative for nervous patients that require minimal approach and safe dental exploration.
Nya kitu, anu Dental Apex Locator is an endodontic instrument used to determine the exact position of the apical constriction of every root canal and therefore provide the working length for every preparation within the teeth’ root morphology. They are electronic devices designed with a system programmed specifically to detect and measure small electrical currents resultant from the dental root apex, which are obtained through a pair of electrodes placed on the lip and attached to the endodontic file. In modern days, Dental Apex Locators are manufactured and designed to be as ergonomic as possible, becoming more lightweight, smaller and easy to carry pieces of equipment, with displays boards to indicate the approximate distance to the dental apex and showing when the file has reached the apical foramen. This helpful tool has evolved to become one the most used and basic electronic devices for the endodontist, providing accurate measurement within 0.5 mm deviations and irrespective of the usual x-rays, preventing the patient’s radiation exposure.
Other essential Endodontic Instruments are the Guta Percha Cutters and Endo Obturation Systems. As well as the other endodontic equipment, these are now key elements in the procedure time reduction, allowing the clinician to work fast and freely. In the case of endodontic obturation systems, the equipment provides the dentist with clean and accurate obturation, filling the root canal while controlling the temperature of the instrument, assisting the operator's control on the device, and allowing the endodontist to have better control of the compaction forces during the procedure. In the same way, the Guta Percha cutters provide the clinician with the ability to obtain a clean and neat cut, assuring the right length and eliminating material excess comfortably and accurately.
From Endo Motors to Filling System Obturators, all of our endodontic equipment are made out the best quality materials, designed for the clinicians’ comfort and quickness during their endodontic treatments, giving the professional an impressive advantage on the clinical environment, allowing them to perform better and, also, reducing procedure complications and further treatment failure, due to uncontrolled variables in any on the steps taken within the endodontic treatment. Although manual and traditional means should not be replaced by these new technologies, clinicians must move forward along with modern advances to make better endodontic dentistry.