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Care & Maintenance of Dental Restorations

Course Number: 468

Instrumentation Around Dental Implant Restorations

Due to the potential for damage to titanium implant abutments, clinicians can use specialized instruments while scaling around them. There are plastic tips to cover inserts when using an ultrasonic scaler (Figure 7). Tips are available for both magnetostrictive and piezoelectric models. There are also titanium (Figure 8) and plastic tipped hand instruments that are best for deposit removal around implants.

 Plastic tip for safe ultrasonic instrumentation near implants.

Figure 7. Plastic tip for safe ultrasonic instrumentation near implants.

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Figure 8. Titanium implant scalers.

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