• Journal of the korean veterinary medical association
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• v.53 no.7
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• pp.425-428
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• 2017

핸드피스는 고속으로 회전하기 때문에 운동부위(베어링)에 윤활이 되지 않으면, 마찰에 의해 베어링이 고열발생과 함께 마모가 진행됩니다. 핸드피스의 베어링이 파손되면 교환을 해야만 되는데 그 부위의 제품명이 '카트리지'입니다. 질문하신 원장님과 통화를 해보니, 평소에 핸드피스를 사용하고서 겉은 깨끗이 닦아주었지만 핸드피스 오일링은 안하고, 핸드피스의 헤드가 미니인데, 버는 표준버를 사용하신 것이 카트리를 고장 나게 하는 원이이었던 것으로 밝혀졌습니다. 인의치과에서 A/S비용으로 제일 많이 지출되는 것이 카트리지 교환비용입니다. 일반적인 동물병원에서는 2~3개 핸드피스만 가지고 있고, 그것도 중국산이 대부분이지만, 인의치과에서는 핸드피스만 몇 십개가 되고 대부분의 외산 핸드피스를 사용하다보니, 카트리지 교환비용이 만만치 않게 들어갑니다. 그런 만큼, 인의치과에서는 핸드피스의 관리에 신경을 많이 쓰는데 비해, 아직까지 동물병원에서는 핸드피스에 대해서 생소하다보니까 핸드피스의 겉 부분만 닦아 주다보니 카트리지가 빨리 고장이 나는 것 같습니다. 관리를 잘한다고 카트리지를 교환 안 할 수는 없습니다. 왜냐하면 카트리지는 소모품이기 때문입니다. 하지만 관리를 잘한다면 카트리지의 수명은 현재보다 많이 연장될 것으로 생각되고, 이번호에서는 카트리지 고장일 때의 증상 및 원인에 대해서 다루었고, 다음호에서는 핸드피스 관리법에 대해서 다루겠습니다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.55.1-55.1
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• 2011

의료용 고속 에어터빈 핸드피스는 주로 치과에서 치아 절삭 및 치료에 사용하는 도구로써 치의학 분야에서 가장 폭넓게 사용되는 의료장비 중 하나이다. 핸드피스용 소재는 황동 혹은 스테인레스 강이 주로 사용되었으나, 최근 고내식성, 인체친화성이 높은 티타늄을 사용한 가벼운 재질의 핸드피스 제품들이 개발되어 독일 및 일본을 중심으로 출시되고 있다. 티타늄으로 제조되는 부분은 헤드와 바디로써, 본 연구에서는 에어터빈의 케이스에 해당하는 헤드부 제조에 있어서 정밀주조 공정 적용의 타당성을 조사하였다. 티타늄은 특히 용융점이 높고 유동성이 좋지 않을 뿐만 아니라 주형과의 반응성이 높기 때문에 주조 시 제품 내/외 부에 결함발생 빈도가 높다. 이와 같은 주조결함 제어를 위하여 상용 유한요소 프로그램인 ProCASTTM을 사용하여 핸드피스 헤드 제조 시 유동 및 응고해석을 수행하였다. 또한 헤드 부 형상에 따른 주조성을 조사하여 이를 바탕으로 최적 주조방안 도출을 위한 정밀주조 공정해석 연구를 수행하였다.

• The korean journal of orthodontics
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• v.34 no.1 s.102
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• pp.83-91
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• 2004

This study was performed to examine treatment efficiency and patient discomfort rate according to used handpiece speed in clean-up technique. Brackets were bonded to extracted human premolar(50 teeth). After debonding, 50 extracted human premolar were divided Into each two groups(low speed handpiece group with tungsten carbide bur and high speed handpiece group with ultra-fine diamond finishing bur) of 25 according to used handpiece speed in clean-up technique. In clean-up procedure, teeth vibration and pulp thermal changes were measured. After clean-up procedure, the enamel surfaces of randomly selected 10 teeth from each two groups were taken by SEM and evaluated. The findings of this study were as follows ; 1. During resin removal, tooth vibrations of various amplitude in low speed handpiece group were more than those of high speed handpiece. 2. The pulpal thermal changes of high speed handpiece group were significantly higher than those of low speed handpiece group, also the resin removal time in high speed handpiece group was almost as twice as in low speed handpiece group. 3. The figures of SEM to enamel surfaces after resin removal showed that notches and resin remnants in high speed handpiece group were more than those in low speed handpiece group.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.237-245
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical efficacy of latex cover developed for dental handpiece on contamination of microorganisms during dental treatment and to determine whether it can be an alternative to conventional sterilization such as autoclaving. E. fecaelis was used as a experimental microorganism instead of oral flora. Experimental bowl with 2 cm of rectangular cavity was fabricated for handpiece operating instead of oral cavity. Latex covers ($Orokeeper^{(R)}$, Orobiotech Co., Korea) and several handpieces were used after sterilization by autoclave. Four experiments were performed to evaluate bacterial contamination related with (1) various parts of dental handpiece, (2) swabbing time with alcohol sponge, (3) postoperative air-water spraying time and (4) consecutive use of latex covers without autoclaving. The results show that face of handpiece uncovered with latex cover was severely contaminated than the covered area and that most bacteria were removed by swabbing face and head area of dental hand-piece and by air-water spraying more than 15 seconds nearly up to the level of sterilization. Conclusively it can be suggested that use of latex cover for handpiece during dental procedure, swabbing with alcohol sponge is air-water spraying for more than 15 seconds after use of dental handpiece should be very useful and practical for prevention of cross infection and should be an alternative method for the sterilization of dental handpiece under some difficult situations not being able to sterilize a handpiece with autoclave.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.597-604
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• 2016

In this paper, we develope a speed control system of a BLDC motor for handpieces used in beauty applications. To reduce implementation cost, the control system utilizes hall sensors embedded in BLDC motors for speed estimation. The developed power module of a motor uses only 220V home voltage, so that the control system does not need any other power sources. An over-speed limit controller is also developed to slow down a motor when the speed goes up rapidly for a moment upon some heavy load is removed. The control system is designed to operate a handpiece with speed in the range of 5,000~30,000 RPM. Experiment results show the validity of the developed system, which maintains the speed of a motor steady even though a load is varied.

• Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.81-89
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• 2022

Purpose: Wireless endodontic handpieces (WEH) are widely used in dental clinics due to their convenience and portability. This study aimed to compare the vibration magnitudes and patterns generated by five WEH. Materials and Methods: Vibration acceleration of five WEH (X-Smart IQ, E connect S, Endo A Class, ENDOIT, and TRAUS ENDO) in the rotary and reciprocating motion was measured with accelerometer The average vibration acceleration was analyzed using the t-test, Welch's ANOVA test, and Dunnett T3 test at P < 0.05. Results: In all WEH, the average vibration acceleration in reciprocating motion was significantly higher than that in rotary motion (P < 0.001). In rotary motion, repeated vibration graphs of constant amplitude were obtained without sudden changes in the magnitude of vibration, and the average vibration acceleration value was high in the order of X Smart IQ, Endo A Class, ENDOIT, E Connect S, and TRAUS ENDO (P < 0.001), there was no statistically significant difference between X Smart IQ and Endo A Class. In reciprocating motion, a vibration graph was obtained in which large amplitude peaks appear at specific points within one cycle are repeated. The average vibration acceleration value was highest in the order of X Smart IQ, E Connect S, Endo A class, ENDOIT, and TRAUS ENDO (P < 0.001). Conclusion: Regardless of the type of WEH, greater vibration occurred in the reciprocating motion than in the rotary motion (P < 0.001). In the reciprocating motion, there was a difference in vibration for all handpieces (P < 0.001).

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.628-634
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• 2008

In recent years, cross-contamination has become one of the noticeable issues in dental clinic. Two major routes of contamination are the direct-contamination through blood and oral secretion and the indirect-contamination through dental office equipments. Especially, air-contamination through air-floating pollutant in a confined space like hospital, and also contamination through aerosol ejected from high-speed handpiece in a dental office was interested. The purpose of this study was to understand risk of bacterial infection through aerosol from handpiece in a dental office, which will help the practitioner with prevention of contamination during dental treatment. The main findings are as follows. 1. In a comparative test, the group using handpiece has higher bacterial number than the group not using handpiece with significant statistical difference(P<0.01). 2. The group using handpiece with rubber dam has lower bacterial number than the group using handpiecewithout rubber dam with significant statistical difference(P<0.01). 3. Comparing the group using drainage water with the group using distilled water as a handpiece water source results in 22.4 cfu and 17.0 cfu respectively but the difference is no statistically significant(P>0.05). 4. Measuring cfu at 0.5m and 1.5m distance, 0.5m distance showed higher bacterial number with statistical significance(P<0.01). 5. Classification of bacterial types showed the largest bacterial number came from gram-positive micrococcus(73.9%), and gram-negative micrococcus, gram-negative bacillus, and gram-positive bacillus follow in descending order.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.158-164
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• 2019

Recently many studies to reduce the noise of dental hand piece which generate inevitably mechanical sound to offend to the ear of a patient have been spotlighted. Generally, methods of adding a sound absorbing material inside the exhaust valve, air pump of machine or automobile are widely reported as optimal way to reduce the mechanical noise. In this paper we studied a new UV laser aided manufacturing of micro-porous structure of EPP substrate and applied dental hand piece to improve the efficiency of sound absorption. A lot of micro-sized pores were fabricated with UV laser processing on the surface of sliced EPP substrate. From fundamental experiments, more high-performance of micro-porous EPP substrate has finally demonstrated for sound-absorbing structure of the micro muffler inside dental hand piece, which actually has the excellent potential to apply a lot of potable machine.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.34-42
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• 2009

High-speed air turbine handpieces have been used as a dental cutting tool in clinical dentistry for over 50 years, but little study has been reported on their performance analysis. Therefore, the effect of turbine blade shape on performance characteristics of dental air turbine handpiece were studied using CFD in this paper. Computations have been performed for five different positions of turbine blade by using frozen rotor method that is one of steady-state method. The characteristics of turbine blade for shapes and reflection angles were analyzed. As a result of the computation, torque is increased by increasing the reflection angle of turbine blade.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 2020

This study intended to evaluate noise level of dental handpieces and the effects of noise cancelling devices. An ear model was designed to measure the level of the noise delivered to the inner ear during dental handpiece operation. The level of noise was measured in various conditions using the ear model and the portable noise meter. Noise level was measured again after applying of 4 different noise cancelling devices to the model ear. The noise level of dental handpieces was 82.5 - 84.4 dB. When 4 types of noise canceling devices were applied, the noise level reduced to 67.4 - 73.8 dB. All 4 devices had statistically significant effect in reducing the noise of the handpiece. Considering the intensity and exposure time, noise in dental clinics can cause hearing damage to dentists. For protection from the risk of occupational hearing damages, noise canceling devices can be recommended.