Let’s Talk About Simplifying

Hand instrumentation kits used when performing dental hygiene recare maintenance as well as for patients requiring more complex scaling and root planning (SRP) can contain as many as 12 instruments. However, most dental hygienists only use two to four instruments from either the recare maintenance or the SRP kit during an entire treatment procedure. This article explains how to simplify dental hygiene instrumentation into cassettes with fewer and more advanced instruments in order to realize various benefits for dental hygienists, patients and practices.