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INSTRUMENTS
When you are treating several people on the same day, you will need to
clean some instruments (see pages 86 to 89) at the same time that you
are using others. Therefore, it is necessary to have several of each kind of
instrument, to be sure that the instrument you need will be ready (clean or
sterile) when you need it.
There are 3 instruments you will need for each person who comes to you,
no matter which treatment is needed. They are: a mirror, probe, and cotton
pliers. Keep them together. Below we recommend that you have 15 of each
of these, so you can keep one in each treatment kit. You do not need to
buy all of these instruments. You can make several of them—see pages
214–216. If you like, buy only one example of each of the instruments
below, and use them as models to copy when you make your own extra
instruments.*
Number
Local name
to buy or
See
Use
Proper Name
(write in here)
make
Page
To examine
or to
give any
treatment
To inject
To scale
teeth
1. dental mouth
mirror
2. explorer
3. cotton pliers
Aspirating dental
syringe to use with
1.8 ml cartridges)
1. lvory C-1 scaler
2. Gracey 11–12
curette
15 75
15 75
15 128
3 135
1 128
1 128
To place
cement
fillings
To remove
teeth
1. spoon excavator
2. filling instrument
3. cement spatula
1. spoon excavator
2. straight elevator
(No. 34)
1 145
1 145
1 145
3 161
3 161
3. upper universal
forcep (No.150)
4. lower universal
forcep (No.156)
3 161
3 161
Note: See pages 161–162 for recommendations of other elevators and forceps that are good to
have if you can afford them.
*If you want the help of a charitable organization in buying instruments, see page 217.