OVERVIEW

The importance of speed.

Cutting speed tops the list of features a dentist looks for in selecting dental diamonds. So diamond manufacturers have produced a variety of designs intended to reduce the time it takes to prepare a crown. Designs include instruments with super-coarse crystals, spiral grooves through the cutting head, instruments with a waved pattern head, and instruments with more tightly packed crystals. All methods have their advantages, but all have certain drawbacks associated with them.

Super-coarse crystals can vary widely in shape and size making the diamond cut very rough and with a high degree of vibration, while leaving a very rough tooth surface. Spiral grooves aid in debris removal, but only in the area of the spiral groove; and they too can create a rough cut. Wave-patterned diamonds require a second diamond to smooth out the initial gross reduction, which requires more time. More densely packed crystals create a more abrasive surface, but diamonds can cluster together and create high spots that can prevent the lower crystals from ever sharing in the cutting load, causing the diamond to wear out more quickly.

A new approach to diamonds.

G-Force™ diamonds, produced with patent-pending technology, were born out of over 30 years of study on how diamond instruments function. They use lessons learned from the aforementioned concepts, while pointing out the myths of some of the conventional wisdom about how to create a faster-cutting, longer-lasting diamond instrument designed specifically for cutting tooth structure.

In reality, the high rotational speeds of dental hand pieces dictate that only the extreme outer edges of the diamond crystals on a rotary instrument will ever contact the tooth surface. So it is imperative to have the crystal layer be as consistent in height as possible to get more of the crystal tips involved in the cutting process. So the trick is not to pack more diamond crystals on the cutting head, nor to use coarser-grit crystals, but instead to place a layer of optimally spaced crystals that feature a consistent outer layer height.

The result is a diamond instrument that cuts faster and smoother, lasts longer, and creates a smoother finish than prior generations of diamonds. There simply has never been a dental diamond that cuts as fast and as smooth or lasts as long as G-Force.