3 Dental Assistant Tools That Every Dentist Must Have

There are many different tools used by a dental assistant to help facilitate treatment with the dentist, but these are the most important ones that a dental assistant will use.

 Dental Assistant Tools 

3 Dental Assistant Tools

1. Air/water syringe.
2. Saliva ejector,
3. High volume evacuator.

All of these instruments are used for either delivering water to the mouth in different ways, or air also, as well as suctioning out debris, spit, saliva, things like that.

(1)Air/Water Syringe

So, for the first one, this is what we call our air/water syringe.

This is probably one of the most important ones.

This one allows the assistant to basically eject air or water or both into the patient's mouth.

Oftentimes, while the dentist is working; whether it be taking a cavity out, or removing something the air, the air basically can be used to help keep the the field of view clear, and also make the patient comfortable.

It also can eject water with the other button just to basically flush out any sort of irritants or debris that's again, in the way.

(2)Saliva ejector,

This one is the, what's called the saliva ejector.

This is the one you typically will encounter when you get a cleaning, and sometimes during routine fillings.

This one is responsible for taking out, again debris and and saliva.

Some people like to call it the spit sucker.

This is essentially what this is. It literally takes out the spit and saliva out of your mouth in a very quick, efficient manner like so.

(3)High volume evacuator

The last one we have is what's called the high volume evacuator.

This is the one most commonly used during fillings.

So, if a dentist is either preparing a cavity, or they are removing an old filling this one generates a lot more suction.

It's also a lot louder, but this one is, again response for also assisting in keeping the field clear, but most importantly, it prevents any larger objects going into the back of the mouth.