3M Unitek Prestige Pin and Ligature Cutter, Miniature
A miniature orthodontic cutter with sharp, diamond-honed tips designed to cut soft wire and ligature wire precisely at the very point of the blades.
The 3M Unitek Prestige Pin and Ligature Cutter is a straight-back designed instrument intended for cutting soft wires, including ligature wire, used throughout orthodontic treatment to secure archwires into bracket slots. Its sharp, diamond-honed tips are positioned to allow the clinician to cut ligature wire precisely at the very point of the cutter blades, which is useful when trimming wire close to a bracket or tooth surface where space is limited.
014 inches in diameter, making it suited specifically to ligature and other fine gauge soft wire rather than heavier archwire, which requires a dedicated hard wire cutter instead. The listing includes a miniature size option, giving practices a smaller instrument choice that may suit clinicians who prefer a more compact grip or need to work in tighter intraoral spaces.
Because ligature wire is used at nearly every archwire adjustment visit in fixed appliance treatment, a reliable, sharp ligature cutter like this one is one of the more frequently used instruments in a typical orthodontic tray setup.
