Scalpel Handles

• Most common No. 3

• Tip of scalpel handle is prepared to receive a variety of differently shaped scalpel blades.

No. 3

Bard Parker Scalpels

• NO. [15 ] is the most useable for mucoperiosteal tissues.

• [11] sharp pointed blade, for incision of an abscess

• [12] for flap in an inaccessible area. (maxillary tuberosity area).

• [10] for skin ( accessible areas).

Holding scalpel by pen grasping

• To allow maximum control.

Flap Lifters instruments used for elevating mucoperiosteum

• The periosteal elevators are spoon-shaped instruments with a sharp cutting surface on a round edge.

Periosteal Elevators

• After incision, flap is reflected. • elevator has a sharp pointed end &

a broader flat end.• Pointed end reflect interdental

papillae.• Broad end to elevate tissues from

bone. • periosteal elevator elevate

mucoperiosteal tissues away from the bone atraumatically, in one piece without perforations.

• The attached gingiva and mucosa & periosteum are reflected in one piece without perforations.

Instruments for bone removal

• Most commonly used instruments for removing bone are:

1. Rongeurs.2. Drillers (bone burs).3. Chisel & mallet.4. Bone file.

Bone forceps (Rongeurs)

• Have sharp blades.• Blades squeezed together by

handles.• Have a spring between handles,

to allow for repeated cuts.• Action is by cutting or pinching

through the bone.

Types of Bone Crushers(Bone Rongeurs)

End CuttingRongeur

Side CuttingRongeur

End & side cuttingRongeur

• is inserted into the tissues to remove inter-radicular bone.

• To remove sharp edges of bone.

• By using multi bites.

The side/end cutting Rongeur

• Bone forceps is more practical for most oral surgical procedures [for removal of interradicular bone].

Surgical drillers(surgical burs)

• Are sharp carbide burs (fissure or round).

• Used to remove cortical bone by making holes then connect them using fissure bur, under copious coolant water.

• Disadvantages: 1. Generation of excessive heat.2. Contraindicated with certain

types of G.A. • Advantages:1. Easy control.2. Safer, so indicated in maxilla.3. Useful in removing dense

bone.

Bone Removal using surgical burs

Bone chisels & malletVariable patterns

• Mallet.

• Unibevel.[monobevel]

• Grooved.

• Bibeveled• For tooth section.

• Used to remove bone.• Success depend on

sharpness.• Chiselling Technique can

be done by:1. Mallet driven chisel.Hand

chisel.2. Electric automatic chisel

( impactor)

• Advantages:1. clean & smooth cutting.2.Practical & safe when operating.• Disadvantage:1.Needs great skill.2.Frighten patient.3.Contraindicated in maxilla

Bone chisels & mallet

• coated for shock absorbant & less noisy

Mallet

Unibevel Osteotome

Bone File

• Used only for final smoothing of bone.• Usually double ended instrument.• Teeth of bone file are arranged in such a fashion to

remove bone on a pull stroke.

Bone file

Curettes is a double ended instrument used to remove soft tissue from bony defects such as small granulomatous tissues & cysts.

Tooth Division (Tooth Sectioning)

• Can be performed alone or with bone removal.

• Using surgical burs & chisels. • Tooth is divided along its

vertical axis or at its neck.• Mandibular teeth are

sectioned in a buccolingual fashion, then elevated by elevators.

Sectioning of Maxillary Teeth

• Maxillary teeth can be divided into 3 or more segments depending on root morphology using fissure burs in (T) or (Y) fashion.

• Then roots are elevated with elevators.• Great care to avoid displacement into maxillary sinus.

Advantages of tooth sectioning

1. Minimize amount of bone removal.

2. Promote healing.3. Save maximum the amount

of alveolar bone.4. Save time.5. Reduce postoperative

complications.

Technique of tooth division

• Using surgical burs, unibevel chisel & straight elevators as an easy, simple & controlled technique.

1. Using burs to design the required cuts.

2. Use straight elevator to elevate the sectioned parts of tooth.

• Advantages:Saving time.

• Rule no.2 : The incision should not cross an underlying bony

defect that existed prior

to surgery or is produced by surgery.

Poorly designed semilunar flap with incision crossing pathologic defect resulting in dehiscence.

• Rule no.3: Vertical incisions should be made into the

concavities between bony eminences.

• Rule no.4 : The termination of the vertical incision at the

gingival crest should be at the line angle of the tooth.

• Rule no.5 : The vertical incision should not extend into the

mucobuccal fold.

• Rule no.6 : The base of the flap must always be wider than the

width of the free edge.

2. ELEVATION• Rule no.7 : The periosteum must be reflected as an integral

part of the flap.

3.RETRACTION• Rule no.8 :

Tissue retractor must rest on bone and not impinge on soft tissue.

4. BONE REMOVAL: Rule no. 9 :• In most cases bone is removed by burs.• Bone should be removed under copious irrigation

with a sharp surgical bur.• Bone could be removed by chisel & mallet, bone

rongeurs, & bone files. In these cases these instruments should be sharp.

6. WOUND DEBRIDEMENT Rule no.10 :• The wound is prepared for closure by careful cleansing to remove

debris, a major cause of post-operative infection.

• Pathological tissue, such as tooth follicle or sinus tracts is excised.

• The bone cavity edges are smoothened to finish without sharp projections

• The flaps are trimmed of all necrotic tissue or tags. • Tooth chips and loose pieces of bone, not attached to periosteum,

are removed from the wound which is then thoroughly irrigated with saline.

• 7. WOUND CLOSURE : Rule no. 11 : All suturing begins by inserting the needle through

the superficial surface of the unattached tissue before entering the inferior surface of the attached tissue .

Rule no. 12 :• The needle should be inserted 2-3 mms from the

edges of the flap to prevent tearing of the flap edges .

• The fixed edge of the flap is better elevated 2-3 mms to facilitate the passage of the needle

through the under surface of the flap.

Suturing of wound. Suture is initially wrappedtwice around the needle holder

The two ends of the suture are tightened to create a surgeon’s knot over the wound (double knot)

Safety knot, created by the single wrap of thesuture in the counterclockwise direction .

COMMON SUTURING TECHNIQUES

1. Interrupted suture

2. Continuous suture

Continuous simple suture. A. Diagrammatic illustration. B. Clinical photograph

3. Blanket suture

Continuous locking (blanket) suture. Wound margin approximation is achieved by successive loops

4.Horizontal interrupted mattress suture. A. Diagrammatic illustration. B. Clinical photograph

Horizontal continuous mattress suture. a)Diagrammatic illustration. b) Clinical photograph. This type of suture is used where wound margins must coapt tightly(tissues with increased tension)

5.Vertical mattress suture, used for deep incisions

6. Sling suture uses the teeth for retention of the suture

Sling suture

Continuous sling suture repair

• Suture removal : Usually from : 5-7 days for mucosa. 3-5 days for the skin.

1.Round.

2.Cutting edge (atraumatic)