Dentsply Maillefer, together with Professor Berutti, Professor Cantatore and Dr Castellucci, have developed a range of five ultrasonic tips based on a simple concept, one tip – one clinical indication, to facilitate and optimise the preparation of the access cavities and localisation of the orifices of hidden canals.

The Start-X tip 1 is for the refining of the access cavity walls. The tip can be used to remove restorations and filling materials, caries and dentine interferences from the access cavity walls thus allowing direct access to the root canal orifices. The Start-X tip 2 will help to locate the second mesiobuccal canal of maxillary molars by removing the dentinal layer in the pulp chamber floor, between the mesiobuccal (MB1) and the palatal canals, The Start-X tip 3 will remove calcifications from the pulp chamber or from the root canal coronal third, the Start-X tip 4 will remove both screw or cast metal posts and the Start-X tip 5 removes calcifications from the pulp chamber floor.

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