Handpieces & Instruments.
Handpieces, scalers, curing lights, lasers, loupes, and the instruments used chairside.
Dental Ultrasonic Scalers: How to Choose
How to choose an ultrasonic scaler: magnetostrictive versus piezo, and how Cavitron, Acteon, EMS, and NSK differ.
Dental Lasers: How to Choose
How to choose a dental laser by wavelength: diode, erbium, CO2, and Nd:YAG, and how Biolase, Fotona, Convergent, Ultradent, AMD, and Millennium differ.
Dental Loupes: How to Choose
How to choose dental loupes: magnification, working distance, TTL or flip-up, and how Designs for Vision, Orascoptic, SurgiTel, and Q-Optics differ.
Top 10 Amalgamators & Parts for Dentistry
Compare capsule mixers and parts — Silamat S6, RotoMix, Ultramat 2, GC CM-II — by timer, motion, and use.
Dental Curing Lights: How to Choose
How to choose a curing light: wavelength, tip size, and how Elipar, Bluephase, and S.P.E.C. 3 differ.
Dental Hand Scalers: How to Choose
How to choose a hand scaler: sickle or curette, the handle, and how Hu-Friedy, American Eagle, and Nordent differ.
Top 10 Mouth Mirror Heads
Mouth mirror heads by socket, size, and coating: rhodium, black-line, magnifying, and Crystal HD.
Top 10 Periotomes in Dentistry
Compare anterior and posterior periotomes from Premier, Hu-Friedy, Directa Luxator, TBS, and Nordent for atraumatic extractions.
Top 10 Composite & Plastic Filling Instruments
Composite instruments by tip and stick: XTS contact formers, Goldstein, LM-Arte, and XP pluggers.
Top 10 Amalgam Carvers for Dentists
Dental carvers by tip: Ward, Hollenback, discoid-cleoid, and IPC, plus the PFI and Bliss that are for composite.
Dental Handpieces: How to Choose
How to choose a dental handpiece: air versus electric, high-speed versus slow-speed, and how W&H, NSK, Morita, and Midwest differ.