silicon and rubber polishing accessories

Aside from dental polishing brushes, other polishing instruments also include Silicon Rubber Polishers. There are different kinds of colors, shapes, and applications, in this post, we decided to introduce them from both the clinic and the laboratory to help you understand them better.

The Clinic’s Silicon Polisher

Silicon Polisher, is the name given to this type of tool. They're made of rubber, silicon, and aluminum.

From the image, we can observe that the heads are of different colors and shapes. As a result, we'll be able to classify them.

First, what are they used for, and which handpiece can they fit into?

Silicon rubber polishers are designed to smooth and polish porcelain and ceramics. And they can fit into FG high-speed handpieces.

Second, the description of the color

We can divide three color types  of Silicon Polishers for polishing Ceramic based on the different grit. White denotes Coarse, Pink denotes Medium, and Blue denotes Fine.

Amalgam or other metals can be polished with this tool. Black denotes Coarse, Brown denotes Medium, and Light Green denotes Fine.

The laboratory’s Silicon Rubber, Rubber Polishing bur

This section can be divided into three series based on the polishing materials employed.

C Series: Silicon Rubber Burs are used for Reduce, Smooth, and Polish. The same as in the clinic, according to different grit, White denotes coarse, and it is used to adjust and remove Porcelain. Pink denotes medium, and it is used to smooth or polish Porcelain. And Blue denotes fine, is used to high-lustre polishing Procelain.

A Series: Durable Rubber Burs are used for Metal and Alloy Polishing. Black is coarse, Cobalt-Chromium, Alloy , and hard metal are all adjusted with black.  Brown is medium, which can be used to remove metal and semi-precious metal. And Green is fine, is good for quickly smoothing out scratches or polishing metal.

R Series: Silicon Rubber Bur Acrylic Polishing Reinforced Shank  is used for Plastic Glue Tray Polishing. Green is coarse,  is used to reduce, finish Acrylic and Resin. Grey is medium, is used to smooth Acrylic and Resin.  And Yellow is fine, is good for final polishing Acrylic and Resin.