Orthodontic Instruments

Types of orthodontic instruments

Bonding and banding

• Orthodontic Bracket Tweezers — bracket holder tweezers and a buccal tube bonder for direct bonding.
• Orthodontic Gauges — Boley gauges for tooth and space measurement and bracket height gauges.
• Orthodontic Hand Instruments — band pushers, band setter, bite stick, ligature directors and cement scalers.

Wire, ligature and crown work

• Orthodontic Pliers — the largest group: wire bending, How and Weingart, cinch back, torquing, contouring, crimping and band removing pliers.
• Orthodontic Wire Cutters — distal end, hard wire and pin and ligature cutters, each for one kind of wire.
• Elastic Placing Mathieu Pliers — locking pliers for elastics and ligatures.
• Orthodontic and Crown Scissors — crown, festooning and ligature wire scissors; not for archwire.

Clear aligners

• Clear Aligner Pliers — punch, dimple and eraser pliers for chairside aligner changes.

Sets

• Orthodontic Sets — a debonding and debanding set and an archwire set.

How to choose orthodontic tools

• By appliance. Fixed appliances use the bonding, banding, wire and ligature groups; clear aligner treatment uses aligner pliers; removable appliances are made with wire bending pliers such as the Adams.
• By step. Bonding → tweezers and gauges; banding → hand instruments and crimping pliers; wire work → pliers and cutters; ligation → Mathieu pliers, ligature directors and pin and ligature cutters; removal → band and adhesive removing pliers or the debonding set.
• Match the cutter to the wire. Distal end, hard wire and pin and ligature cutters are not interchangeable.

What are orthodontic instruments used for?

Bonding and banding brackets, tubes and bands; forming, placing, cinching and torquing archwires; ligation with elastic and steel ties; contouring and crimping crowns, bands and attachments; adjusting clear aligners at the chair; and debonding and debanding at the end of treatment. Ortho instruments of this kind work at the chair and on the laboratory bench.

How BusinessMed orthodontic instruments are made

German stainless steel with a satin, non-reflective finish; tungsten carbide inserts on the TC pliers and cutters. Reusable, autoclavable and covered by a 5-year warranty. As an orthodontic supplies source, each orthodontist tool page lists its own pattern and size.