Schmeckebier Elevator, Dental Extraction Instrument

The Schmeckebier elevator is a named pattern of dental elevator used during tooth extraction, where the clinician works the tip between the tooth and surrounding bone to loosen the tooth ahead of removal. As with other elevators in a dental extraction tray, its specific shape and angle are intended to suit a particular access position or extraction technique, giving the dentist another option alongside straight and curved elevators already on hand for different clinical situations.

Reliable, well made elevators are an important part of managing a controlled extraction, since the amount and direction of force applied through the instrument affects both the ease of the extraction and the patient's comfort during and after the procedure. Instruments like this are reprocessed and sterilised between patients as part of standard dental infection control practice, and are typically supplied and stocked alongside a broader range of dental surgical instruments used in general and oral surgery.

General dentists and oral surgeons carrying out extractions are the typical users of an elevator of this pattern.