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BRASS SEPARATING LOOPS - 025  E-mail this product to a friend

Before the development of elastomeric separators and nickel-titanium separating springs, brass separating wire was the method of choice for tooth separation. Today, brass wire is used to maintain space already created by another type of separator while waiting for the arrival of bands from the IP Appliance or the lab (such as lower lingual arch). Brass separators come in preformed lengths, and are threaded gingival to the contact and then twisted to the buccal with a Mathieu plier after wrapping around the contact. Difficulty may be encountered between upper molars with the palatal tissue, because the brass wire sometimes acts as a suture. Insert the flattened end from lingual to buccal, and then twist the two ends until "firm pressure" is felt.