Description
Amalgam Pluggers
Dental Instruments
Sizes:
1830 – Behrman (Fig 1)
1831 – Black (Fig 1-2)
1832 – Morquette (Fig 0/1)
1833 – Black Action 11/12
1834 – Hollenback No.1
1835 – Hollenback No.2
1836 – Hollenback no.3
Hollenback No.2Â
SMS Instrument Amalgam Pluggers are specially designed instruments to plug and place amalgam without risking injury to sensitive tissue. Used in any common obturation technique for finishing the margins of plastic filling restorations.
| Surname | Pluggers |
| Tip Configuration | Round |
| Size / Model / Figure | Fig 1, Black Fig2, Hollenback 1,2, 3, Morqutte Fig0/1, Black Action 11/12 |
| curvature | Angled |
| Handle | Octagonal Double Ended |
| Finishing | Mirror Polish Finishing |
| Instrument Type | Dental Amalgam Pluggers |
| Material | Stainless Steel |
| Disposable or Reusable | Reusable |
| Rusting Prevention | Passivation Processed |
| Cleaning | Ultrasonic Cleaned |
| Sterile or Non-Sterile | Non-Sterile |
| Latex or Latex-Free | Latex-Free |
| Test Performed | Boil, Shape & Performance Test |
| Grade | Premium OR-Grade |
| Packing | Individually Packed in SMS Brand printed Poly-sleeve |
Pluggers
Plugger, a dental instrument used for compacting silver amalgam while in a plastic state, used for restoring teeth to a natural contour. In dentistry, a tool to compress amalgam into a cavity preparation. A compactor for placing light-curable filling material in connection with dental treatment, especially for filling a cavity in a tooth which is contiguous with an adjacent tooth, the compactor in the longitudinal direction having a tapering, conical shape; the end which is to be pressed down in the filling has in cross section a square, rounded shape. Plugger, It is a long and blunt flat tip blade instrument. It is necessary for vertical condensation technique and also plugging of gutta percha at the termination of all other obturation condensation techniques. There are 2 types of pluggers, the long handled type and finger type.
