GDC Root Elevators Bein Standard (Eb6)

Features

Description

GDC Root Elevators Bein Standard (Eb6):- Parts of the elevator

• Handle: This may be a continuation of the shank or at a right angle to it.
• Shank.
  
• Blade: This part engages the crown or root and transmits force to
  the tooth, bone, or both. The working side of the blade is either concave
  or flat.

Mechanical principles of elevator use
The work principles as applied to the use of elevators may be that of:

• Lever principle.
  
• Wedge principle.
  
• Wheel and axle principle.
  
• Combination of these principles.

Clinical uses of elevators:

• Elevators are used to luxate and remove teeth that cannot be
  engaged or grasped by the beaks of forceps (e.g.. impacted teeth,
  malposed teeth), also badly carious teeth, teeth with heavy filling.
  
• To remove old roots and fractured roots and sectioned roots.
  
• To loosen, teeth prior to using forceps.
  
• To split teeth that have had grooves cut in them, as in separation or
  roots.
  
• To remove small amounts of bone to create a point of application for
  the beaks of forceps, or removal of interseptal bone.
  
• Any tooth resisting normal extraction force by extracting forceps.
  

Direction of use

RULES TO BE FOLLOWED
Never use adjacent tooth as a fulcrum, unless it is to be extracted also
Never use a buccal plate at the gingival line as fulcrum
Always elevate from the mesial side of the tooth
Always use finger guards for protection against slipping