Orthodontic Instruments

What This Collection Covers

• Bonding — bracket placers (straight, angled, right-angle, posterior long, direct bond), anterior bracket placer, cotton pliers with and without lock
• Wire work — Bird Beak, Tweed loop forming, Jarabak, Adams, Young, How, Weingart, 107 round nose, flat and blunt-jaw pliers, locking pliers
• Bands and crowns — crown and band crimping pliers, crown removing pliers (upper and lower), band removing pliers
• Cutting — distal end cutters with safety hold (including mini head and flush cut, long handle)
• Debonding — anterior bracket removing pliers, adhesive removing pliers and replacement tips
• Aligners — crescent, horizontal, bite forming and flattening pliers, activation pliers
• Records — buccal photographic mirror

Bonding to Debonding

At the start of treatment the job is placement: brackets have to go on exactly where they belong, so bracket placers hold them by the wings and position them without touching the bonding base. Through treatment, wires are formed, bent and ligated with pliers and Mathieu elastic placers. At the end, removal pliers lift brackets off and adhesive removers clean the enamel. The instruments here follow that sequence.

How to Choose

Start with the procedures you do most. A fixed-appliance practice needs placers, forming pliers, distal end cutters and removers. An aligner-focused practice leans on aligner pliers and attachment tools.

Check the tip. Serrated tips hold wire; smooth tips avoid marking it; carbide inserts last longer.

Replacement tips. Some pliers take replaceable tips, which are listed alongside them.

Frequently Asked Questions

What instruments does an orthodontic practice need to start?
At minimum: bracket placers, a Weingart or How plier, loop and bending pliers, a distal end cutter with safety hold, a ligature cutter, band and bracket removers and a Mathieu plier.

What is a bracket placer?
A tweezer-style instrument that holds a bracket securely for positioning on the tooth during bonding.

Do you supply orthodontic instruments to distributors?
Yes. Send us your list and quantities for a quote.

Related categories: orthodontics, orthodontic pliers, bracket placers and tweezers, cutters, dental instruments and photographic mirrors.