Ensure the longevity of your dental handpieces with our comprehensive maintenance guide. Learn essential tips and tricks to keep your equipment in top condition. Increase efficiency and productivity in the dental clinic.
Here are some tips for maintaining handpiece in good conditions:
1. Regular lubrication
Perhaps this is a basic common sense topic for every dentist friend. First, lubricate the handpiece before disinfecting it. Especially high temperature disinfection will cause certain damage to the handpiece, and should choose the 3-time pre-vacuum mode for disinfection. After disinfection, you need to dry it to prevent the handpiece from rusting.
2. Pay attention to the use of lubricant
Handpiece oil and lubricant are not the same thing. You may think they are oily, but the effect is different. Handpiece oil is used for lubricating bearings. Cleaning lubricant is used to clean handpiece bearings. Every time after drilling or preparing teeth, a large amount of tooth chips will drill into the handpiece's collet and even around the bearings. If these tooth chips are not cleaned up, these tiny tooth chips will be a fatal injury to the handpiece when it is running at high speed. When the air pressure reaches 0.23, the speed of the handpiece is about 300,000-400,000 rpm. Therefore, the cleaning lubricant is used after each drilling or preparation.
3. Do not use inferior burs
Inferior burs can cause great damage to the handpiece because they are irregular and uneven in thickness. The international standard outer diameter is 1.59mm~1.60mm. When inserting the bur, try to use a little more force, and then push the bur in until it can no longer be put in. The same applies when removing it.
4. Avoid handpiece falling
When the handpiece is not in use, try to put in the original clamping rod. Also, when drilling or preparing teeth, do not consciously add force to the handpiece when it cannot be drilled. That will cause great damage to it, and especially the bearing. Secondly, it can cause the bur to deform.
5. About air pressure adjustment
The air should be discharged frequently at about 1-2 times a week. The air from the compressor should be strictly filtered, otherwise the impurities in the air will cause serious damage to the bearings of the handpiece. In addition, normally the high speed handpiece pressure should be adjusted to about 0.20-0.23. Don't set it too high, otherwise it will damage the bearing.