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If you have ever sat in the dental chair and watched your clinician load a small, gritty paste into a spinning rubber cup before working it across your teeth, you have witnessed prophylaxis paste in action. For many patients, it is simply the bit of the appointment that leaves a minty taste and a smooth, …
Walk into any oral surgery suite and you will find a tray of instruments that most patients never quite recognise. Among forceps, elevators, and retractors sits one piece of equipment that plays a specific and important role in bone management: the rongeur. It does not look like much at first glance, a hinged instrument that …
A broken nose and a crooked septum are two different problems, even though people often lump them together. ENT surgeons treat them with two different forceps built for two different jobs: Walsham forceps and Asch forceps. They sit side by side in the same instrument tray, and at a glance they can look like minor …
Pick up a pair of Metzenbaum scissors next to a pair of Mayo scissors, and at first glance they look like close cousins. Both have blunt tips and finger-ring handles, and both show up in nearly every surgical tray in the country. But hand the wrong pair to a surgeon mid-procedure, and the difference becomes …
An Introduction to Deutsche Dental Technologien and Its Manufacturing Partners There are companies that sell dental instruments, and there are companies that understand what clinicians actually need when they are working subgingivally with millimeters between success and tissue trauma. Deutsche Dental Technologien belongs firmly in the second category. Based in New York and drawing on …