FAVORITE DENTAL SUPPLY IN DENTAL SCHOOL?

[helpplease911]

Hey guys,
What’s your most useful or favorite thing you use in school?

Have a greater organizer you use?
Interwedges to protect adjacent teeth?
Must have burs?

I love looking at Dental supplies and want to hear what items you guys love... so i can look them up and buy them haha

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[Incis0r]

Hey guys,
What’s your most useful or favorite thing you use in school?

Have a greater organizer you use?
Interwedges to protect adjacent teeth?
Must have burs?

I love looking at Dental supplies and want to hear what items you guys love... so i can look them up and buy them haha

#1 would be my loupes w/ lumadent light. Game-changer. Got a group discount and two long-lasting battery packs from lumadent. I love them.

#2 would be the garrison wedges that you were talking about - great at protecting teeth. Been using them for Class III composites - lingual approach, and I can't believe I didn't use them for the Class II amalgams.

#3 would be mylar strips. So useful.

#4 actually I love everything composite; oh, ENHANCE is amazing. I prefer that to the Brassler polishing system. It gives such a gorgeous shine.

As far as burs, the my top 3 are 330, 56, and flame-shaped diamond. I can do any of the procedures with them and get a good bevel. Also the composite finishing burs are great.

 

[StrugglingDS]

Recent grad here transition into practice...

Forgive the long list. I am actually making such list to submit to my office manager to make sure most, if not all, of them are present in the office when I begin practice in a few weeks.

#1: Loupes and lights. I can't imagine doing dentistry without them. I had 2.5x and 4.0x in dental school and recently just purchased 5.5x, which I plan to use mostly for endos

Everything else below, your school should be able to supply to you (mine did!)

#2: For restorative:

• Burs: 330, 557, 557 surgical length, 169, H379, H41, 7902, 7801, 6682, mosquito diamond, and all round burs.
• 3M filtek composites
• 3M Scotchbond
• 3M Vitrebond
• Garrison sectional matrix bands and wedges for composites
• Garrison blueview anterior matrix for anterior restorations
• Omni matrix for amalgams and MOD composites w/o adjacent teeth
• Hand instruments: Explorer (of course!), spoon, hatchet, hollenback, interproximal carver, cleoid/discoid, acorn burnisher, ball burnisher
• Polishers: One gloss point, PDQ brushes
• Shofu and 3M discs

#3: Fixed pros:

• Burs: 856 (all sizes, coarse/fine), 847-KR (all sizes, coarse/fine), fine diamond football
• Photo core B/U material
• Retraction cords
• 3M Imprint PVS
• Comprecap (really love this!)
• Transport syringes for light body PVS
• 3M Protemp for provisionals, Maxitemp and Integrity are my second choices
• Straight handpiece w/ acrylic bur blocks
• Metal triple trays or custom trays w/ PVS adhesive
• BluMousse classic for bite reg
• Silgimix for opposing arch impression (if I don't have an updated model)
• CEREC Omnicam or Planmeca E4D scanner (if patient opts for CAD/CAM)

#4: Removable pros:

• Custom trays w/ PVS adhesive
• Kerr Aquasil PVS impression material
• Kerr Putty (PVS hard body is my preference but sometimes this is way easier)
• RPD burs: Round diamond, 35, 880
• Colored pencils to draw my RPD design in the cast and on the prescription sheet

#5: Endo:

• Bioceramic sealer
• Calamus
• Ultrasonic endo tips
• Endo-Z bur
• K-files
• MTA and Biodentine for vital pulp therapy
• I guess NaOCl and EDTA

#6: OS

• 15 and 12B blades
• Elevators: Periosteal, Straight, Pott's, RTP, Seldin, Cryer
• Forceps: 17, 18, 65, 150, MD1, 79, 151, 23, 13, Cowhorns, and root tip forceps
• Retractors: Minnessota, Wielder
• Sutures: Plain/chromic gut (unless not indicated for the procedures) from 3-0 to 5-0
• Gel-Foam
• Burs: Surgical 56 and 557 and all the alveoloplasty burs

 

[Faux]

Any love for enamelize?

 

[deleted659902]

Recent grad here transition into practice...

Forgive the long list. I am actually making such list to submit to my office manager to make sure most, if not all, of them are present in the office when I begin practice in a few weeks.

#1: Loupes and lights. I can't imagine doing dentistry without them. I had 2.5x and 4.0x in dental school and recently just purchased 5.5x, which I plan to use mostly for endos

Everything else below, your school should be able to supply to you (mine did!)

#2: For restorative:

• Burs: 330, 557, 557 surgical length, 169, H379, H41, 7902, 7801, 6682, mosquito diamond, and all round burs.
• 3M filtek composites
• 3M Scotchbond
• 3M Vitrebond
• Garrison sectional matrix bands and wedges for composites
• Garrison blueview anterior matrix for anterior restorations
• Omni matrix for amalgams and MOD composites w/o adjacent teeth
• Hand instruments: Explorer (of course!), spoon, hatchet, hollenback, interproximal carver, cleoid/discoid, acorn burnisher, ball burnisher
• Polishers: One gloss point, PDQ brushes
• Shofu and 3M discs

#3: Fixed pros:

• Burs: 856 (all sizes, coarse/fine), 847-KR (all sizes, coarse/fine), fine diamond football
• Photo core B/U material
• Retraction cords
• 3M Imprint PVS
• Comprecap (really love this!)
• Transport syringes for light body PVS
• 3M Protemp for provisionals, Maxitemp and Integrity are my second choices
• Straight handpiece w/ acrylic bur blocks
• Metal triple trays or custom trays w/ PVS adhesive
• BluMousse classic for bite reg
• Silgimix for opposing arch impression (if I don't have an updated model)
• CEREC Omnicam or Planmeca E4D scanner (if patient opts for CAD/CAM)

#4: Removable pros:

• Custom trays w/ PVS adhesive
• Kerr Aquasil PVS impression material
• Kerr Putty (PVS hard body is my preference but sometimes this is way easier)
• RPD burs: Round diamond, 35, 880
• Colored pencils to draw my RPD design in the cast and on the prescription sheet

#5: Endo:

• Bioceramic sealer
• Calamus
• Ultrasonic endo tips
• Endo-Z bur
• K-files
• MTA and Biodentine for vital pulp therapy
• I guess NaOCl and EDTA

#6: OS

• 15 and 12B blades
• Elevators: Periosteal, Straight, Pott's, RTP, Seldin, Cryer
• Forceps: 17, 18, 65, 150, MD1, 79, 151, 23, 13, Cowhorns, and root tip forceps
• Retractors: Minnessota, Wielder
• Sutures: Plain/chromic gut (unless not indicated for the procedures) from 3-0 to 5-0
• Gel-Foam
• Burs: Surgical 56 and 557 and all the alveoloplasty burs

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