Cool Tool Score!!! Dental Tools

[chruler]

I work part time at a dental lab and just scored a box of used tools!

Many of these hand tools are sharp and have intricate features making them ideal or fine work. I use them all the time in the lab on tooth models and there literally is a tool with just the right bend, curve or cutting surface for just about any fine scraping job I can think of!

Best part. I PAID $0 FOR THEM!

 

[1foxracing]

What a score, I'd love to own those!

You ****!

 

[7echo]

for sure that is suckage.

i would autoclav them before i used them.

 

[Cameronl]

During a routine checkup, I asked my dentist about any old picks and he pulled out a container like that and told me to help myself. I took about a half dozen. Great for electronic work. And best of all, most are made in the USA.

 

[KRB52]

I used to work with a guy who had a good relationship with his dentist and hygenist. He would get used picks (usually the ones they just got done using on him.) since they usually threw them away. They worked well for cleaning guns.

 

[Jim Johnstone]

My dentist is a really easy going guy that has been friends with my in laws for years. He heard I was a tool and die maker and asked if I ever use carbide burrs for engraving steel or deburring, I said all the time and he handed me a huge box of lightly used sterilized carbide burrs.

 

[90zcar]

That's awesome. Nice little bin of goodies u got there!

I think most of us on the site have a metal dental pick that we got at a flea market or acquired somehow down the line haha


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[RustnGrease]

I was just at the dentist on friday for a cleaning and thought those would work great for picks and such, should've asked them about it, but i figured they just keep sterilizing and reusing until they are junk.

 

[ken w.]

You deserve a U **** for that.

 

[bonneyman]

I grab dental picks and such whenever I can.

 

[supra90turbo]

My Dad asks every time he goes to the dentist, I don't know if they chuck them after each use or what, but it doesn't seem to bother them. I think he must have a shoebox full by now. haha

 

[astroracer]

I've also gotten a lot of stuff from my dentist. Molding and casting materials also. The picks and fine drill burrs I used when I was building a lot of model cars. The fine pics work great for rescribing panel lines and cleaning hard to reach spaces.
Mark

 

[Nick Danger]

My dentist throws broken tools into a box. Sooner or later, someone always asks for them.

 

[jjjrmx5]

I find and buy them in bulk at teh summer flea markets and outdoor antique sales.

Surgical stainless and great for picking the grease and dirt out of sockets and allen head screws/ bolts.

The fleas would sell that tub for $25 -$30 an the antique guys would want $40 or $45.
Still a great deal at those prices condidering they will last a long long time.

Free is the best price of all!!!!!

 

[Tronyadorable]

I'm training at a gynecologists office.
I want to expand my horizon.
Noice thumb eh ?

 

[Jacobson]

Looks like 100 copies of the same tool.
Is the dentist a poster on GJ?

 

[928'er]

Ouch!

 

[RedneckWelder]

I work part time at a dental lab and just scored a box of used tools!

My father is a dental technician, grew up helping him in his lab. The access to good quality picks, burrs, and many other tools for stationary dental motors and such is nice. I also like having a dental motor at home, because it's like a stationary die grinder and is useful for fine work.

 

[espyking83]

Let me know what of that is for sale, those would make exceptional scribes

 

[jrsulo]

My wife is the manager in a dental office and in the dental field over 40 years.....I use the old picks and tools for a lot of things as she brings home whatever I need.....and I get my teeth done too !!!!!!!!!

 

[chruler]

The really cool thing about these is that they ends are "left and right specific." There you are scraping something intricate and you need to get around it from the other side. Just flip the tool over and the scraping surface approaches the scrape zone from the other side! Makes perfect sense I suppose for doing work on teeth. It's not like you can swing the patient around!

I guess I kinda do ****, LOL! Every so often the tool gods smile upon one of us.

 

[bcradio]

very nice score

 

[Bigblue&Goldie]

My father-in-law is a dentist so he hooks me up with retired tools whenever I need them. I keep a set of picks in my garage boxes and another set in my gunsmithing box. Dental tools are a gift from God when detail cleaning a firearm!

 

[Cato]

Awesome,know you will have the right tools to work on your own teeth.

 

[wild cowboy]

I am interested in anything marked Hu-Friedy or Miltex if you want to sell off some of your hoard!

I use them fixing ECUs/ECMs

 

[riscoe]

My wife is a dental hygienist and brings some of the picks home when I ask. They are useful, but they are also very brittle and I've snapped the tips off pretty regularly just picking paint out of screws at work. But once shortened a little and resharpened to the shape you need, they work really well and last quite a bit longer. She also brought me a disposable mirror with a light tube on it that conducts light from any attached source. I modified it to attach to a small penlight and it has come in handy many times.
Generally the dental office reuses these tools and sterilizes them between patients. My wife has resharpened them as needed, but most younger hygienists might not, and dispose of them more often for a sharper newer tool.

 

[chruler]

I use these when I need light and magnification.

Most of these dental tools are pretty rugged. I have sharpened several and they work great as intricate scrapers for wood, plastic and particularly for getting grime and residue out of tight places.

I haven't had time to pick through them yet and don't really have an interest in selling them at this time. Let me see what I have and perhaps I'll put a list together soon.

 

[Davefr]

I use these when I need light and magnification.

I had that Optivsor LED add on and it was absolutely worthless. (ancient LED technology and absolutely no light throw)

If you want to improve your Optivisor lighting mount a Zebralight Headlamp. Get the floody/warm light version.

The difference will be like night and day.

 

[wild cowboy]

Now that I look closer, it's mostly Hu-Friedy, and mostly duplicates of the same tools over and over.

 

[MFolks]

With the correct wheel, you could probably re-sharpen the picks, to get a custom angle for difficult to work jobs. Great for electronic/electrical work.

 

[chruler]

I had that Optivsor LED add on and it was absolutely worthless. (ancient LED technology and absolutely no light throw)

If you want to improve your Optivisor lighting mount a Zebralight Headlamp. Get the floody/warm light version.

The difference will be like night and day.

Nice! Thanks!

 

[Forsythe04]

I have quite a few picks and pliers/cutters as my mother is an orthodontist assistant..great to have for sure. and made in the USA

 

[madcrisis]

Yeah I picked up 6 of em for 3 bucks at the flea