Dental strips - a tool often used in medical practice. They are necessary to perform various procedures that have a restorative or restoration effect. Most often, specialists in the field of aesthetic dentistry resort to their help.
Definition and purpose
In medical practice, use dental metal or plastic strips. The latter are most often made of polyester. The consumable is in the form of a narrow strip 2-6 mm wide. The surface is sprayed with varying degrees of abrasion.
The main purpose of their use is to shape the tooth crown, as well as the treatment of interdental space. Doctors call them grinding or abrasive strips. They are used only if it is impossible to get to the treated area with rotary tools. Strips remove deposits on the teeth, perform the preparation, restore and shape the veneers.
Product Specifications and Classification
These dental supplies are used depending on the procedures performed. It is worth noting that strips are very popular, because with their help therapeutic manipulations of different complexity are performed.
The tool is classified according to its purpose:
- Polishing surface.
- Removing excess composite or cement.
- Primary grinding of the tooth crown.
As already mentioned, dental plastic and metal strips are produced. Regardless of this, they can be coarse or finely abrasive sprayed, the coating is located throughout the tool or ½ part, and it may also be completely absent.
If there is granularity, then more often it is represented by the following materials:
- corundum;
- Garnet;
- carborundum;
- diamond;
- alumina.
Dental strips are also distinguished by color (blue, green, red, yellow) and by the number of working sides (one or two). Strips with a large abrasive are used to shape the tooth and remove excess cement. Medium-grained products remove roughness, and fine-grained ones are needed for polishing the surface.
The length of the product ranges from 12-18 cm, and the width is 1.9-8 mm, the average thickness is 0.15-0.2 mm. For greater convenience, two forms of production of dental strips are presented - rolls and finished strips. The tool is disposable, therefore, after use it is immediately discarded.
Terms of use
Dental strips perform therapeutic and prophylactic functions. In the first case, they shape the tooth, clean the interdental space, remove excess cement, and in the second, they are used to remove plaque and give shine. This procedure is allowed to be performed no more than once every six months, and only on condition that there are no concomitant diseases in the oral cavity, enamel of low sensitivity, and no allergy.
Dental strip polishing is carried out in several stages:
- Definition of the working area.
- Selection of the type and level of abrasiveness of the tool.
- Flat tooth surface treatment.
- Chewing teeth cleansing.
- The study of the interdental space.
Before the procedure, the patient should refrain from smoking and drinking alcohol for 24 hours. Depending on the type of consumable, the price of the work will differ. The runaway cost of the strip for manufacturers is very large (from 47 rubles to 8,000 rubles). The cheapest are plastic products, and the most expensive are with aluminum oxide spraying.