Luca
Martinelli
Dental bur
holder
Publication nr 21 – May, the 7th 2013
1 DENTAL BUR HOLDER
1.1 Foreword
The dental bur holder is,
actually, an ordinary instrument commonly used in dentistry. No one can confer
any prestige on it, compared with many other accessories or supports.
We are very often faced with some
banal problems, which can complicate our job in a way that we could absolutely
avoid.
On our worktop the availability
of the burs required for our job, can become into a problem that could prevent
us from working with more facility and calm.
Thanks to its characteristics, the
silicon bur holder is, nowadays, the most appropriate, compared with all the
others put on the market up to now, for the dental surgery use.
1.2 The bur holder
A bur holder is a service
instrument that must let us find out immediately the necessary bur and easily pick
it up.
It also has to reduce all the
possible problems that may be generated
during sterilization and storage phases, to a minimum.
The most present on the market
bur holders are made by aluminum. The ones made by steel are less present and
holders made by plastics and silicon have just recently been introduced on the
market, too.
Example of alluminium
bur holder
2. WHICH BUR HOLDER SHALL I CHOOSE?
After having read my explanation,
it would be easily clear that silicon bur holder would be the best to be
chosen, mostly the 35 holes universal ones (which means that they can contain
burs with different axle diameters).
Example of silicon bur holder
First of all, silicon bur holders
are holders that don’t cause galvanic effect, which is the ionic transfer
effect of metals, caused by the difference of metals with which the burs are
built, and the relative aluminum or steel bur holders. Silicon bur holders save
burs – and themselves, too – by oxidation and corrosive effects.
Compared with the plastic bur
holders, the food silicon ones have the characteristic not to be toxic, too.
By an operational point of view, which
is the most interesting, we can say that silicon bur holders are useful for
three reasons at least:
1- Possibility to insert both turbines’
and micromotors’ burs, permitting to prepare a unique bur holder which contains
all the necessary burs.
2- Possibility to prearrange
operative sets by color distinguished (on the market you can find bur holders
with not less than 6 different colors), permitting to organize at most
warehousing and timing of intervention and choice;
3- Prevention by burs accidental
falls due to upsetting of the bur holder, which means prevention by possibility
of breaking or sterilize one more time burs, thanks to cross holes that you can
find on the best silicon bur holders.
To those three main strong points, apart from
prevention of the galvanic effect, we can add that the silicon base has got
non-slip properties, which can prevent slipping of the holder on smooth
surfaces and can simplify the grasp of the chosen bur with a single hand.
Usually, those bur holders have the possibility to
have a low cover, for surgery burs, or a higher cover, for lab burs.
2.1
COSTS
The price difference between silicon bur holders and
the metal or plastic ones are none; most of the times silicon bur holder is
even less expensive. Economic factor as well goes to silicon bur holder benefit
and the operator can easily buy many bur holders with many different colors.
Lastly, its weight is definitely lower than the metal
ones or made by different kind of plastics.
This data, apparently not so interesting, becomes
emphasized when high quantity shipment, abroad and in Italy as well, are
needed. This is another reason to prefer silicon bur holders to all other
kinds.
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