Ratnaditya Akurati, Ravuri Srinivas, Tadi Durga Prasad, Kandregula Chaitanya Ram, Kopuri Rajkumar Chowdary, Pentakota Venkata Girish
Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Vishnu Dental College, Bhimavaram, India.
Department of Public Health Dentistry, SIBAR Institute of Dental Sciences, Guntur, India.
J Int Soc Prev Community Dent. 2014 Nov;4(Suppl 1):S23-5. doi: 10.4103/2231-0762.144572.
To prevent accidental ingestion of implant hex dive.
Dental floss which is used to stabilize the hex drive is tied to the operator's finger ring to overcome sudden aspiration of fallen instrument.
It showed excellent grip of the instrument during stage two uncover time and also saved operators time.
Accidental aspiration or swallowing of the dental instruments during routine implant surgeries can be prevented by tying the implant instruments to the operator's ring with silk ligatures or dental floss.