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Introduction
Throughout the years we all came across several "hidden secrets" and ways to keep your handpieces operating smoothly - It's time to clean them up and demonstrate the proper way!
As handpieces have severely improved their performance through the past decades, somehow old ways of reprocessing, cleaning, and maintaining handpieces seem to still stick around and some things may never come out of fashion, the maintenance process should be checked from time to time.
At MK-dent we come in contact with all brands and products that have been in the market as we have been studying these products for years to constantly improve our own items. During these studies, it became visible that independently of the brands most of the same issues occur that can easily be prevented by taking care of a few easy steps.
1. Operation
During the operation, the sole focus of the practitioner should be on the patient to ensure the best possible results. Technically speaking it is essential to take a few safety and preparation measurements that ensure operational performance:
a) Drive air pressure
Handpieces are high performance products so it is absolutely necessary to ensure the proper set up to allow them to live up to their full potential. Prior to using the handpiece please ensure the correct drive air pressure is set on the dental chair as otherwise significant losses in power or even defects can occur.
Setting the air pressure wrong causes a loss in performance and can even damage the equipment. Click here to learn more about how to set up drive air and why it is so relevant.
b) Correct Spray air and spray water pressure:
To ensure sufficient cooling of the tooth it is required to provide at least 50ml/min of spray water to the tooth to prevent the overheating of the pulp.
c) What burs should be used?
Please ensure that the diamond coating is still sufficient to ensure you have enough cutting power during the operation as ~80% of the diamonds are removed after 8 minutes of operation.
Also, the burs shafts should constantly be inspected to allow the handpiece spindle mechanism to properly grip the bur.