Socket Shield Instrument Kit for Precise Root Fragment Preparation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The socket shield technique requires high accuracy and experience, making it challenging for less experienced practitioners to perform effectively.
Innovation Solution
A kit comprising a wheel bur with dual working surface discs, trephine burs with stoppers, a root-fragment remover, a split end elevator, cylindrical and round burs, and optionally, drills and a diameter gauge, designed to facilitate precise and predictable execution of the socket shield technique.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the socket shield technique is performed using conventional instruments and methods, then the procedure requires high accuracy and experience to be performed correctly, but this makes it challenging for less experienced practitioners to perform effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument is divided into multiple functional components: a guide body with guide rails for positioning, a cutting instrument holder for secure attachment of cutting instruments, and interchangeable cutting instruments (trephine bur, round bur, elevator). This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while working together as an integrated system, making the complex socket shield technique more manageable and easier to perform with consistent accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide body acts as an intermediary device that mediates between the practitioner's actions and the tooth structure. It provides guide rails that intermediate the positioning of cutting instruments, ensuring precise movement along predetermined paths. This intermediary guide structure translates practitioner input into accurate, repeatable motions, reducing the skill gap for less experienced practitioners.
2Ease of operation
If a comprehensive kit with multiple specialized instruments is provided, then the socket shield technique can be performed more easily and predictably, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide body serves multiple functions: it provides positioning guide rails, holds the cutting instrument, guides the cutting motion, and stabilizes the instrument during operation. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional guide body, the system reduces the number of separate components needed, making the kit easier to use while maintaining comprehensive functionality for the entire socket shield procedure.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide body merges the positioning system, instrument holder, and cutting guide into a single integrated component. This consolidation combines multiple functions that would traditionally require separate instruments or fixtures, simplifying the overall system while providing all necessary capabilities for accurate socket shield technique performance.
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AI summary
There is provided a kit for performing socket shield technique, and methods for using the kit, wherein the kit may include a wheel bur, having a first working surface disc and a second working surface disc configured to smoothen and cut hard tissues of a tooth; one or more trephine burs with stoppers configured to cut a root canal to create a first tooth fragment and a second tooth fragment, wherein each stopper is compatible with each of the one or more trephine burs; a root fragment remover configured to extract the first tooth fragment and stabilize the second tooth fragment; a split end elevator having a v-shaped notch tip configured to remove the first tooth fragment; a cylindrical bur to control the thickness of the second root fragment; and a round bur configured to separate the second root fragment from unwanted fragments.