Description
Mouth mirror with handle
Every mouth mirror with handle on this page ships as a finished instrument rather than a spare part. The plain mirror head arrives already mounted on a stainless steel handle, so it goes straight onto the tray. Three head diameters are offered, and the handle is identical in each case.
Choosing the head diameter
Head size decides two things at once: how much of the field you see, and how far back you can work. A smaller glass slips behind a lower second molar where a wide one fouls the cheek. A larger glass shows more in a single view and doubles as a retractor.
| Diameter | Catalogue figure | Where it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Ø22 mm | Fig. 4 | Tight posterior access |
| Ø24 mm | Fig. 5 | General examination |
| Ø26 mm | Fig. 6 | Wide field and retraction |
Most practices settle on Ø24 mm for routine chairside work and keep one of the other two beside it for awkward cases.
What plain means here
Plain describes the glass. The image comes back at true size, with no enlargement and no coating over the reflecting layer. Consequently what you see is what is actually there, which matters when you are judging a margin or watching the tip of a probe.
A magnifying head trades that honesty for a bigger picture, and a rhodium head trades it for brightness. Both have their place. However, for probing, for charting and for anything where distance has to be read accurately, operators usually reach for plain glass first.
The handle
Each mirror ships on our standard stainless steel mouth mirror handle. The head threads on and off by hand, so a scratched glass is swapped in seconds instead of the whole instrument going in the bin. Moreover one handle pattern serves every head in this range, which keeps a practice holding one spare part rather than three.
Looking after the glass
Mirrors fail long before they break. Scratches accumulate, the image goes cloudy, and the operator quietly starts leaning in closer without noticing why. Therefore keep these out of the general instrument wash where heavier steel can drag across the face.
Unscrew the head from the handle every few cycles and dry the thread. Moisture trapped in that joint is what eventually loosens a head or stains the shoulder. Autoclave as you would any stainless instrument, then check the face against a straight edge of text before it returns to service.
Intrace USA covers every mirror and handle on this page for three years against defects in manufacture.
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