Buffing Wheels

About buffing wheels

A buffing wheel is a soft wheel charged with a polishing agent rather than a bonded abrasive of its own. To burnish, in the same glossary, is to make shiny or lustrous by rubbing, which is what a charged buff does.

Soft and loaded with compound, where a grinding or heatless wheel is rigid bonded abrasive.

Sources: The Glossary of Prosthodontic Terms, 9th edition (J Prosthet Dent 2017)