Dental Wax and Porcelain Carvers
BusinessMed® Dental Wax and Porcelain Carvers are hand instruments with blunt blades: a wax carver shapes wax patterns — the occlusal and proximal anatomy of crowns, inlays and bridges before casting — and some patterns also shape porcelain before firing. The blade can be warmed to soften wax. The range covers six double-ended patterns, each with its own pair of ends.
5 LeCron Wax Carver
$12.99
Types of wax carver and porcelain carver
- LeCron 5 wax carver — a knife end and a small scoop.
- Akers wax carver — a pointed end and a spoon.
- Evans wax carver — a narrower point and a small spoon for fine fissures and embrasures.
- Reeves wax and porcelain carver — a small knife and a flat spatula; a porcelain carver as well as a wax carver.
- Roach wax carver — a double-ended wax and porcelain carver for wax patterns of crowns, inlays and bridges.
- Vehe wax carver — a spade and a small spade scoop.
How to choose a carver dental instrument
- Wax only or wax and porcelain. Reeves and Roach also shape porcelain; the others are wax carvers.
- Blade form. Knife and point ends cut fissures and define cusps; spoons and scoops remove and smooth wax; the Evans' narrow ends refine work begun with broader carvers.
- Handle. Akers and Evans come on lightweight plastic handles; the other patterns on stainless steel handles.
What are dental carvers used for?
Carving occlusal and proximal anatomy on wax patterns for crowns, inlays and bridges before they are cast, trimming margins and interproximal areas, and shaping and blending porcelain on crowns before firing — the bench work a dental carver is kept for.
How BusinessMed carvers are made
German stainless steel working ends, on plastic or stainless steel handles as named on each page; reusable, autoclavable and covered by a 5-year warranty.