1 minute to know why dental handpieces don’t rotate properly!

First of all, we would like to show a picture to the dentist and dental handpiece dealer.The following picture shows a middle gear part of dental handpiece, you can see that the dental air turbine inside and outside have been rust and blood and other wrapped, resulting in not working. There are 3 reasons why the dental drills become this way.

Reason 1: No cleaning

Not promptly cleaned after each use of the a dental handpiece. When using the dental high speed handpiece or dental low speed contra angle, they will inevitably get some water stains, blood stains, some dentists just hastily cleaned after use.So after each use of dental turbinas must be strictly cleaning as well as regular maintenance, so as to extend the life of the dental handpiece accessories.

Reason 2: Incorrect way of storage

Infrequent use of the slow speed contra angle and high speed dental turbine must be deeply cleaning and maintenance after sealed storage, or the dental handpieces may still have stains on the inside.If time goes by, the internal spare parts of the dental handpiece will oxidize and become like this in the picture below.

Reason 3: Wrong cleaning and maintenance methods

Some dentists or dental clinic workers may say they do not understand, I obviously every time to clean and maintain the dental handpeices, how can it still rust corrosion? Their ideas of cleaning and maintenance is correct, but the wrong method of cleaning and maintenance may be!

Many people will use water to rinse the surface of the dental handpiece, but not to immediately dry it. Because after rinsing, the inside of the dental handpiece is in a wet state, which directly leads to accelerated oxidation and rust and corrosion inside the dental handpiece.

At last, if you want to know more about how to maintain dental handpiece, please click on our previous articles Dental handpiece maintenance tips, or buy our dental handpiece spare parts and tools to repair dental handpiece.