A double-ended D5 explorer with a moulded silicone handle. The paired fine tips are drawn across tooth surfaces and restoration margins to pick up softening, cavitation and defective edges by tactile feel rather than sight alone.
- Paired fine explorer tips for tactile caries detection
- Checks restoration margins for overhangs and defects
- Ergonomic silicone handle reduces pinch force and hand fatigue
- Hardened Japanese-standard J2 stainless steel working end, autoclavable
FAQs
What is an explorer used for?
It detects caries, checks restoration margins and finds calculus by feel. A fine tip picks up surface changes long before they are visible on inspection alone.
Why choose a silicone handle?
A moulded silicone handle is wider and lighter than a solid steel one, so it takes less pinch force to control the instrument. Across a full day of appointments that means noticeably less hand fatigue, and the textured surface keeps its grip when wet or gloved.
What material is this instrument made from?
The working end is hardened Japanese-standard J2 stainless steel, which holds its edge through repeated autoclave cycles, set into a moulded silicone handle. Both are fully autoclavable.
Part of our diagnostic range alongside the DG16/23 explorer and our periodontal probes.
Manufactured by InstruDental, UK specialists in dental hand instruments.
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