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Lucricia is a 14-year-old female patient with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She is scheduled for an...

Lucricia is a 14-year-old female patient with cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She is scheduled for an odontectomy (two molars) under general anesthesia.

5. Describe how to prepare the dental mirror for use. Why does the mirror require preparation?
7. The surgeon is splitting the tooth with a drill. As you are irrigating, the surgeon asks that you irrigate the buccal side. Where will you direct the irrigation fluid?

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Ans(5)  The procedure to clean and prepare a conventional dental mirror during a normal dental procedure generally takes seven to ten seconds. This procedure has following stpes:

  1. To prepare a conventional dental mirror, First, it is splattered with debris
  2. Then operator removes the mirror with one hand and  put the hand-piece down in the other hand.
  3. Then, he takes a wet gauze saturated with mirror defogger.
  4. Then, he wipes the mirror surface with the wet gauze.
  5. Then, he dips the mirror into the mirror defogger seated on a dental tray.
  6. After this, he removes the excess drops from the mirror and picks up the hand piece.
  7. Then, he returns to the patient's mouth and continue the tooth preparation or other operative procedure.

Preparation of mirror is required because, at room temperature, dental mirrors tend to “fog up” when these are placed inside a patient's warm, humid mouth. This causes decrease in visibility in the mirror. Hence, they are needed to be defogged which is done by the process of preparation.

Ans(7): The irrigating fluid is sprayed on the dental mirror inside the patient's mouth while the surgeon is operating. The irrigation fluid gets collected in oral cavity and should be directed toward buccal side (outer side of teeth towards cheek side).

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