Bayonet Elevators

Description

Bayonet Elevators

A bayonet elevator has a stepped shank that moves the blade out of line with the handle. That step lets you see the blade while it works in the ligament space. This page offers three versions, so you can reach both sides of the arch without twisting your wrist.

Why a Bayonet Shank

Straight elevators hide their tip behind your own hand in posterior sites. The bayonet bend, however, moves the handle away from your line of sight. Consequently, you can watch the blade enter the ligament and judge how far the root has moved.

Straight, Offset In and Offset Out

• Straight: a bayonet shank with the blade facing forward, for anteriors and easy-access roots.
• Offset In, Small: a small blade set on an inward offset.
• Offset Out, Small: a small blade set on the opposite, outward offset.

The catalogue names the offsets without drawing them, so compare the photos. Many clinicians therefore keep both offset versions as a pair, since together they reach more root surfaces.

Preserving Bone for an Implant

When an extraction leads to an implant, the buccal plate is precious. So, use small rotations in the ligament space rather than heavy leverage against the crest. Then let time and gentle pressure loosen the root. The small blades of the offset versions help here because they fit the narrow space.

How We Stand Behind It

Each elevator blade is looked over by our Atlanta team in the United States before shipment. It arrives without sterile packaging, so clean and steam sterilize it before the extraction. Furthermore, any bayonet elevator showing a fault traced to production qualifies for our three years against manufacturing defects replacement terms.

Shank and blade are made of steel to ASTM F899. Browse our implant instrument range, and consider the luxating elevators and periotomes for the first stage of loosening. For orders, see our FAQs.

Elevators are sold to trained dental professionals. Please read how to care for elevator blades and our shipping information.