Head
Brass
Brass$7.25
Brass / fiberBrass / nylon
Weight
3 oz
The Buffalo Brass/ Fiber, 3 1/2 Oz. Mallet is a dental laboratory mallet for tapping and seating work in the dental laboratory.
Product
- Manufacturer
- Buffalo Dental
- Manufacturer #
- 26-491
- Item code
- 055-0636
Catalog path
- Marketplace
- Laboratory
- Category
- Lab Instruments
- Subcategory
- Lab Hand Instruments
Ordering
- Status
- Ships in 3 business days
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About hand tools and instruments
The FDA defines a dental hand instrument as a hand-held device that performs various tasks, and lists it as Class I (21 CFR 872.4565). Pliers, scissors and instrument handles are among the instruments the regulation lists.
The FDA defines a dental hand instrument as a hand-held device that performs various tasks, and lists it as Class I (21 CFR 872.4565). The same regulation lists the dental wax carver among them.
How the types of lab hand instrument differ
- Hand Tools & Instruments — Hand-held devices for various tasks.
- Spatulas — For mixing and spreading materials.
- Wax Spatulas — A spatula for wax work, where a pattern is built by adding wax in sequence.
- Knives — Not a mixing tool: the spatula is the instrument for mixing or spreading materials.
- Cutting Tools — Saw blades, drills, chisels, scissors and cutters: the tools that cut rather than shape.
The shelf also files pages as cutting tools, pliers and tweezers, wax knives and waxing accessories; no source on our allowed list describes those groups, so this guide does not.
What to look at when choosing
The task: a spatula mixes or spreads a material, and waxing instruments contour a wax pattern.
Reuse: the CDC states that laboratory items such as burs, polishing points and laboratory knives used on contaminated appliances or prostheses should be heat-sterilised, disinfected between patients, or discarded.
Sources: FDA 21 CFR 872.4565, Dental hand instrument · The Glossary of Prosthodontic Terms, 9th edition (J Prosthet Dent 2017) · CDC, Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings, 2003 (MMWR 52 RR-17)
