Spad Elevator, Dental Extraction Instrument

The Spad elevator is a dental instrument shaped for the delicate work involved in tooth extraction, where the clinician needs to loosen a tooth from its socket before it can be removed with forceps or lifted directly. Its design is intended to give the dentist accuracy and control while working close to the root and surrounding bone, an area where a poorly shaped instrument can make the procedure slower and less comfortable for the patient.

Elevators of this general type are used across a range of dental extraction cases, from routine single tooth removal to more involved surgical extractions where careful, incremental loosening of the tooth is needed rather than force applied all at once. As with other elevators in a dental surgery kit, the instrument is intended to be reprocessed and sterilised between patients as part of standard dental infection control.

General dentists and oral surgeons performing extractions rely on instruments like this as part of their everyday extraction tray, often alongside other elevators shaped for different tooth positions and extraction techniques.