F.
PREPARATION AND FAMILIARIZATION
When taking the XO ODONTOSURGE into use for the first time, it is strongly recommended
that the operator gets familiar with the XO ODONTOSURGE by practising before starting to
work under clinical conditions.
This can be done with a piece of fresh and lean meat which, when held in the operator’s
hand, constitutes an acceptable clinical model.
F1.
Dissection Exercise
1. Select the standby mode by touching switches to turn blue and yellow lamps off.
2. Insert a straight needle wire instrument.
3. Touch the CUT-switch to turn yellow lamp on, and check that the ON/OFF finger switch
responds with an acoustic signal.
4. Place the meat in the palm of one hand on a piece of paper towel. The meat should not
be dry. If it is, moisten lightly with water.
5. Hold the handpiece in a pencil-type grip and hold the instrument in position slightly
above the tissue surface. Activate the instrument by pressing and holding the ON/OFF
finger switch. You will hear the acoustic signal for the CUT-mode.
6. Make an incision a few millimetres deep in the meat by advancing the instrument in a
single continuous stroke, while using the high speed suction for odor evacuation.
7. Practise making shallow and deep incisions - also incisions of varying depth. While
making the incisions, the instrument should always be kept in motion and be moved as
rapidly as the tissue resistance permits.
Next, practise tissue sculpting or ”electroplaning” using the wire loop instrument, and
”troughing” with a wire hook instrument. You will observe that the shape of the instrument,
and the angle of the instrument to the tissue surface will determine the shape of the cut.
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