Dental Lathe: Uses, Functions, and Applications in Dentistry

Dental lathe is usually used in dentistry clinics as an instrument for performing operations related to prosthodontic and orthodontic diagnosis and treatments.

This involves carving teeth prostheses as they can perform drilling, grinding, polishing operations by attaching appropriate bur tools and brushes into its rotatory handle with the help of latch devices like collets and handpieces of varied shapes such as pencil grip ones