GDC Root Elevators Heidbrink – Straight Standard (E2)

Features

Description

GDC Root Elevators Heidbrink – Straight Standard (E2):- 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.
  

Packaging

• 1 x GDC Root Elevators Heidbrink – Straight Standard (E2)

Direction of use

Cuiding principles for use of elevators:
The following rules should be observed when using elevators in
general:


• Never use an adjacent tooth as a fulcrum, unless that tooth is to be
  extracted itself in the same visit, and the fulcrum should always be
  bony one (alveolar bone).
  
• An elevator should always be supported to avoid slippage and
  injury to the patient.
  
• Avoid the use of excessive force if the tooth/root resist luxation, by
  gentle rotation, then stop, look for the obstruction to elevation, and deal
  with it.