Surgical Carbide Burs

About surgical carbides

Surgical carbides are the shapes used on bone, which the FDA names alongside teeth as a hard structure a dental bur is meant to cut. ISO 6360-3 codes surgical instruments in the same numbering scheme as burs, finishing burs and cutters.

Cuts bone rather than a cavity in a tooth, and comes on the longer shanks the shelf carries for that work.

Sources: FDA 21 CFR 872.3240, Dental bur · ISO 6360-3:2005, Number coding system for rotary instruments — Burs and cutters