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.
