Sandblasting Equipment

About sandblasting equipment

These are the bench and cabinet units, with their windows and handguards, that blast a restoration or an appliance rather than a tooth. Airborne-particle abrasion is routinely used in dental laboratories for divesting cast restorations after investment removal and for conditioning ceramic restoration surfaces before adhesive bonding. It can also damage the surfaces of the treated materials under certain conditions, so the parameters are selected with that in mind.

Works on a restoration or an appliance on the bench rather than in the mouth. Grain size is chosen for the job: alumina runs from 25 to 250 microns.

Sources: Influence of Varying Airborne-Particle Abrasion Angles on Surface Properties and Flexural Strength of Feldspar Ceramic (J Funct Biomater, PMC13514140)