How to retract tongue without assistant during operative and crown preps?

[Obrad]

How to retract tongue without assistant during operative and crown preps?

I have not started working on patients yet, but with the mannequin, I use my left hand to retract the cheek with mirror. Anyways, I was just watching this video. From 1:45 to 1:57, you can see how the tongue is so close to the bur.





I cannot even imagine how difficult that would be during crown preps.

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[BluntForceTrauma]

Mirror, dry angles, rubber dam (for operative).
Agreed with the crown preps. Least favorite teeth to prep are lower molars for this reason. Everything else is fine for crowns

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[Daurang]

That's scary close! I'd put a cotton roll between the tongue/tooth and cheek/tooth, or use hand mirror for separation.

 

[OhioDMD]

Svedopter (Old School)

Isolite or Isodry

 

[PreDentTechySon]

Isolite, Isodry, Mr. Thirsty or Rubber Dam. You can try cotton roll on buccal vestibule and mirror for lingual area while seated behind the patient, but that’s a little risky imo.

 

[apicalforamen]

Isolite

 

[pubhealthdent]

Isovac/isolite if available. But also, you can just rubber dam it then take the dam off to bring the margin down and refine the interproximals