[Studies on the cutting ability of dental diamond points--the trial manufacture of the cutting test apparatus (author's transl)].

Diamond points and tungstencarbite burs are used as the dental cutting tools for many appliance accordingly with the many purpose of used positions. Notwithstanding that the dental cutting tools have been usually applied for many purpose of dental treatment, the paper on these studies have scarcely been reported. In this studies the test of dental cutting tools curried out using the diamond points and examined these characteristics. As the problems on the cutting tests are the push load of cutting tools and the cutting quantities. This studies tried to make the test apparatus for the cutting test of dental diamond points considering to dental treatments. The glass plates used for photograph are used for cutting materials supposing to the enamel properties of teeth and the cutting tests put into practice for the types of diamond points with different diameter. The cutting characteristics of the diamond points are examined with the using of the test results and are appreciated with the considering to the test apparatus.