Surgical Chisels

Surgical chisels may also be classified as cutting instruments. Chisels are used to remove bone and to split it. Chisels are used with mallets.

Bone chisels are tools for carving small pieces out of the bones to reach the inner soft part. Bone chisels are used to score, cut, scrape, clean and sculpt bone. They are stainless steel instruments. The bone sculpting chisels are called Osteotomes they are used to cut a window in the bone cortex to allow harvesting of pure soft bone

The chisels are stainless steel, made from an inclined plane (called the blade) attached to a straight handle. A surgeon forces the chisel into the to make a window. A mallet may be used to drive the chisel.

Surgical chisels are much larger than enamel chisels used in restorative dentistry. They are used to cleave tooth enamel, smooth cavity walls, and to sharpen cavity preparations. chisels with curved shanks are used for the anterior teeth and are called Wedelstaed chisels. For complicated tooth structures and positions. Biangle chisels are used as they have an angled at shank as well as the working end.

Surgical chisels are a little larger than the enamel. They are used to remove the bone or split the tooth. The surgical mallet is used along with a selected chisel to split teeth or reduce alveolar bone. 

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