Dental Hygienist Replacement Scaling Tips

Dental hygienists use both manual and powered scalers when doing cleaning treatments, including lingual, buccal and approximal supragingival scaling. There are five types of scaler tips commonly used: universal, perio, left perio, right perio and sickle. Tips may be made to fit a specific brand of scaler or they may fit many brands. In 2010, replacement scaler tips cost from $60 to $100 on average.

Service Star Dental

• Located in Massachusetts, Service Star Dental offers a selection of Cavitron equipment, scalers and tips and provides an equipment repair service.

Dental Depot

• U.S. Dental Depot supplies dentistry products to the domestic and international market. The company supplies tips for Cavitron scalers.

Lions Dental Supply

• Lions Dental Supply offers universal piezo tips. These tips fit ultrasonic scalers by makers including Scalex, Bonart, Superson, Vista, Obtura and ADEC. Ultrasonic scalers work by using magnetostrictive or piezoelectric systems to create vibration at the tip, which facilitates ease of scaling.

KAB Dental

• Founded in 1988, KAB Dental provides a wide selection of universal tips to fit scalers by manufacturers including Bonart, KaVo, Titan and EMS. KAB is a member of the United Dental Dealers (UDD) Buying Group, which was established to source supplies at the best prices and reduce resale and operating costs.

Patterson Dental

• Patterson Dental offers Quixonic universal tips. Quixonic tips are used when scaling and treating implants.