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AEI Catalog 2014

Product catalog summary

Introduction
American Eagle Instruments (AEI) is a prominent manufacturer of dental hand instruments, recognized for their high-quality and innovative products. Founded in 1992, AEI has become the second-largest manufacturer in North America, offering a diverse range of dental products focused on efficiency and ergonomic comfort.

Product Overview

Double Gracey Instruments: These instruments combine two tools in one, facilitating efficient scaling without the need to switch instruments. They feature a unique design with two slightly sloped faces for better adaptation to tooth surfaces.
XP Technology: Known for its sharpness and durability, this line of instruments requires no sharpening. The XP Technology instruments are made using a patented surface engineering process, providing superior wear resistance.
Blackjack™ Scaler: Designed for ergonomic use, this scaler allows clinicians to maintain a 12 o'clock position and efficiently scale from light to heavy calculus.

Technological Innovations

XP Technology: Offers over 100 times greater wear resistance compared to traditional stainless steel instruments, with a Rockwell hardness of 89 Rc.
Quik-Tip™ Cone Sockets: These allow for easy replacement of instrument tips, enhancing the longevity and versatility of the instruments.

Company History
AEI's origins date back to 1948 with American Dental Manufacturing. After a competitor's acquisition and closure in 1990, former employees founded AEI in 1992, focusing on high-quality, innovative dental instruments.

Ordering Information
AEI products can be ordered directly or through dealer partners. The catalog provides a detailed breakdown of part numbers and ordering instructions.

Conclusion
American Eagle Instruments is dedicated to providing the finest dental instruments, combining craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology to enhance dental practices worldwide.

XP Technology Overview: XP Technology is a patented surface engineering process that enhances the metallurgical composition of dental instruments, resulting in a Rockwell scale hardness of 89. This makes the instruments extremely durable and eliminates the need for sharpening, as they maintain a sharp edge longer than traditional instruments.

Benefits of XP Technology: The technology allows for a lighter touch during use, aiding in ergonomic hand protection, increasing instrument longevity, and enhancing patient comfort by reducing scaling noise. The instruments are designed for fine subgingival scaling and root planing.

Double Gracey Instruments: These instruments combine the features of Gracey and Universal curettes, allowing for easy adaptation to various tooth surfaces without switching instruments. They are designed to maintain a 12 o'clock ergonomic position during cleaning and are sharpen-free due to XP Technology.

Handle Options: American Eagle offers two patented handle designs: EagleLite stainless and EagleLite resin plastic, which are lightweight and provide superior tactile feedback. The handles are designed to reduce the onset of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Testimonials: Various dental professionals have praised the XP Technology for its durability, sharpness, and ergonomic benefits, noting significant improvements in their daily practice and patient care.

Product Range: The document lists various Gracey curettes and Universal curettes, detailing their specific applications and design features, such as blade length and shank design, to cater to different dental procedures.

Specifications and Features:

Universal Curettes: Includes models like Columbia 2L-2R and Scandette, designed for adaptability and safe subgingival access. The Scandette combines features of Gracey 11-12 and 13-14.
Periodontal Scalers: Various models such as H 6-7 and Jacquette series, designed for anterior and posterior use. The Blackjack scaler is highlighted for its innovative design and sharpen-free technology.
Quality Assurance: Instruments are crafted by hand, adhering to ISO 13485 standards, ensuring precision and longevity.

Innovations:

XP Technology: Many instruments feature this sharpen-free technology, maintaining their factory edge throughout their lifespan.
Eagle Claw and Talon: These instruments are designed for specific anterior and posterior applications, combining popular tips for comprehensive use.

Testimonials: Users praise the instruments for their sharpness, durability, and ergonomic design, reducing the need for frequent sharpening and enhancing user comfort.

Golden Eagle Kits: These kits offer combinations of instruments designed for specific dental procedures, emphasizing efficiency and ergonomic benefits.

Overview of EagleLite® Resin Handle Instruments: These instruments are specifically designed to reduce hand fatigue for clinicians. They introduce a range of periodontal and implant instruments, highlighting their features and benefits.

Specifications: The instruments are available in various models such as Barnhart 5-6, Langer 3-4, and 204S, each designed for specific dental procedures. They are categorized into anterior and posterior instruments, with options for different handle colors and customizable kits.

Quik-Tip™ Technology: This technology allows for the replacement of dull instrument tips without discarding the entire instrument, offering significant cost savings and waste reduction. The instruments are available in Talon ToughSM and XP Technology, ensuring durability and sharpness.

Customization and Cost Efficiency: The instruments are completely customizable, allowing practices to create unique setups. The Quik-Tip™ system provides a cost-effective solution by enabling quick re-tipping and reducing waste.

Testimonials: A testimonial from a dental hygienist praises the cost savings and effectiveness of the Quik-Tip™ instruments, highlighting their sharpness and ease of assembly.

Contact Information: For more information or to view 3D models of the instrument tips, the document provides contact details and a website link.

Overview of Restorative Dental Tools: The document highlights the precision, durability, and user comfort of these instruments, which are made from high-quality stainless steel.

Specifications: The instruments are designed with specific features such as corrosion resistance and consistent working ends. They include a variety of tools like chisels, hatchets, margin trimmers, excavators, amalgam carriers, condensers, pluggers, burnishers, carvers, cord packers, and more. Each tool is crafted for specific dental procedures, ensuring optimal performance and ease of use.

Instrument Design: The instruments are precisely designed with durable materials like Talon ToughSM stainless steel. They feature multi-functional ends, such as the super pluggers that combine a condenser, burnisher, and carver in one tool.

Dr. Black’s Instrument Numbering Formula: This formula ensures instrument balance by keeping the blade within 2mm of the handle's long axis, which is crucial for effective cutting with minimal effort.

Maintenance and Care: The document outlines general care instructions for maintaining the instruments, including rinsing, cleaning, drying, lubrication, sterilization, and inspection. It emphasizes using compatible, neutral solutions and avoiding dissimilar metals during cleaning and sterilization.

Special Care for XP Technology Instruments: These instruments require specific care to maintain their sharpness and performance. Recommendations include using cassettes for cleaning, avoiding certain chemicals, and ensuring thorough drying before storage.

Implant Instrument Care: Made from medical-grade titanium, these instruments are designed to avoid damaging implants. The document provides guidelines for their use and maintenance, emphasizing gentle scaling and avoiding use on non-implant surfaces.

Implant Instrument Care & Maintenance

Sharpening: Use a diamond stone for sharpening implant instruments and avoid rough or coarse stones. Test sharpness with an AEI test stick.
Cleaning: Place instruments in an ultrasonic cleaner for a standard 20-minute cycle using pH-balanced cleaners. Rinse with demineralized water.
Sterilization: Dry instruments before autoclave sterilization, following the manufacturer's recommendations, and allow for a complete drying cycle.
Storing: Ensure instruments are thoroughly dry before storing.

OVS™ Cassettes

Manufactured with a double hinge design for better visibility and space savings. Made from durable stainless steel with a flow-through design for efficient cleaning.
Equipped with sturdy racks to keep instruments in place during sterilization and feature a push-button latch for easy operation.
Available in various sizes and configurations to hold different numbers of instruments.

Cassette Advantages

Provides sterile and organized setups ready for immediate use, reduces cross-contamination, processing time, and instrument damage.
Facilitates easier training and allows for color coding of setups.

Sharpening Technique

Inspect cutting edges with a 10x magnification loupe for defects. Use a test stick to check sharpness.
Two methods for sharpening: visible edge method and less fatigue method, each with specific advantages.
Simply Sharp Kit includes a double-sided stone and a 10x loupe for convenience.

ProForm™ Lubricant

Innovative boundary lubrication with a performance rating 5-10 times better than standard lubricants.
Reduces friction, lowers operating temperatures, and extends handpiece life.
Available in aerosol and pump can, eliminating the need for multiple lubricants.

xpRewards Program

Customer appreciation program offering promotions like "Buy 6, get 1 free" and an upgrade program for old instruments.
Members receive exclusive offers and can save money by replacing old instruments.

Catalog excerpts

AMERICAN EAGLE INSTRUMENTS" INC 6575 Butler Creek Road • Missoula, MT 59808 • 406-549-7451 • Fax 406-549-7452 • www.am-eagle.com

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See pages 20 & 27 to learn more. Also available in Quik-Tip™ Cone Sockets + nables a 12 o’clock ergonomic position for the duration of cleaning E + llows clinician to keep lower shank parallel to tooth surface (axis), A similar to traditional Gracey instrumentation + aneuver between mesial and distal surfaces without switching M or flipping instrument + nables clinician to scale from light to heavy calculus E + ounded toe provides safe access for subgingival scaling R Double Gracey Cutting Edge Face Face Cutting Edge To learn more about Double Gracey instruments please see pages 10-11.

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“ DPS “BEST PRODUCT” rating! American Eagle’s XP Technology instruments earn These results do not surprise me at all. In the last 12 -15 months, I have become a huge AE XP Technology fan. I can’t go back! months later soon each of my cassettes will be filled with XP instruments! – Liz Nies, RDH-EA, AS, HygieneFusion coach “I am thoroughly impressed with XP Technology by American Eagle. They are way more efficient than other instruments due to not having to sharpen during a procedure and they have continued to remain sharp after many uses! They are a perfect combination of ergonomics and time...

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lthough American Eagle InstrumentsSM (AEI) opened its business doors in 1992, our history began in 1948 with the start of American Dental Manufacturing, a family-founded dental hand instrument company that made its mark by providing high quality, durable instruments to the dental profession. Through hard work, determination, and Montana pride, the company became a well known and respected manufacturer within the dental industry. The company grew to about 75 employees, many of whom forged careers to become some of the dental industry’s best journeymen instrument makers and sharpeners. American...

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QUIK-TIP™ CONE SOCKETS 25-32

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INSTRUMENT INFO DIAGNOSTIC HANDLES 7/32’’ - 5.6mm Stainless Steel DE (Standard) 7/32’’ - 5.6mm Stainless Steel SE (Standard) 3/8’’ - 9.5mm EagleLite® Black R esin DE ( X) 3/8’’ - 9.5mm EagleLite Black R esin SE ( X) MIRROR HANDLES 1/4’’ - 6.3mm Stainless Steel C.S. R ound (Standard) 1/4’’ - 6.3mm Stainless Steel C.S. Ta pered (Standard) AE MH R SS - simple stem metric threading (European) AE MH T SS - simple stem metric threading (European) 3/8’’ - 9.5mm EagleLite® Black R esin C.S. R ound ( X) 3/8’’ - 9.5mm EagleLite Black R esin C.S. Tapered ( X) AE MH R SS X - simple stem metric threading...

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handles tip information gracey tip comparison INSTRUMENT INFO COLORED RESIN HANDLES EagleLite® colored resin handles offer you easier recognition of your specific i strument pattern. CURETTE & SCALER HANDLES Gracey Curettes Purple 00-0, 1-2 Anterior Black 3-4 Anterior Yellow 5-6 Anterior Green 7-8 Pre-Molar/Molar Red 9-10 Pre-Molar/Molar Or ange 11-12, 15-16 Molar-Mesial Blue 13-14, 17-18 Molar-Distal Not applicable to all instruments. 3/8’’ - 9.5mm EagleLite Stainless Steel (Z) I N S T R U M E N T T I P I N F O R M AT I O N Point of Reference FACE CUTTING EDGE Instrument Tip Upper Shank Terminal...

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INSTRUMENT INFO part numbers / how to order To simplify your ordering we have created this legend that explains the breakdown of our part numbers: SECTION B - Instrument Style D IAGN O S T IC EP = Explorer/Probe Combo MH = Mirror Handle EXP = Explorer AESH6-7XPX When ordering, there is no need to include spaces in the part number. GDP = Gracey Deep Pocket TT = Talon Tough (Stainless steel instruments require periodic sharpening) COMP O S IT E /P L ASTIC FI LL IN G C = Composite SECTION C - Instrument Classifi ation XP = XP Technology (NO SHARPENING REQUIRED) SECTION D - Handle Designation X =...

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• Sharpest factory edge • More comfort, less fatigue • State-of-the-art heat treatment

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For a 3D view of any instrument tip, visit our online catalog at www.am-eagle.com NO MORE SHARPENING XP Technology is a patented surface engineering process. Th s technology is a proprietary process in which the metallurgical composition of the instrument’s surface is enhanced, giving it the properties of a much more durable material. Th s process allows us to put a much sharper edge onto a thinner blade, eliminating the time-consuming and imperfect process of sharpening your instruments. Vickers/Knoop Microhardness 2,000 cemented carbide tooling 1,000 high speed steel (HSS) tool steels 61-63...

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For a 3D view of any instrument tip, visit our online catalog at www.am-eagle.com TECHNOLOGY benefits + A lighter touch aids in ergonomic hand protection and minimizes the risk of wrist/hand problems Barely hold the instrument using a light, “exploratory scaling” touch. Shave through calculus using a few light strokes; do not fracture off calculus. + A lighter touch increases instrument longevity + Less likely to burnish calculus with an always-sharp blade + Saves time + Enhances patient comfort + Decreases scaling noise for auditory comfort + Less lateral pressure for scaling efficac G uidelines:...

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international testimonials For a 3D view of any instrument tip, visit our online catalog at www.am-eagle.com Technology make the American Eagle curettes a touch above any competition. I cannot at all imagine using any other curette after having had my hands wet with the Double Gracey. I also have to mention the very original Explorer and Perio probe combination instrument. It has become an invaluable companion during the initial examination of any and every patient that I consult. The perfect combination of the Double Gracey™ Design coupled with the XPSM - Dr. Ajay Kakar, President Elect - International...

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talon tough For a 3D view of any instrument tip, visit our online catalog at www.am-eagle.com Exceptional Quality Since 1992, American Eagle InstrumentsSM has been a leader in providing the dental industry with the hardest and sharpest right-out-of-the-package stainless steel curettes and scalers. AEI has manufactured excellence for over 20 years with our perfection of heat and cryogenics treatments for our Talon Tough line of stainless steel instruments. These proprietary processes enable the clinician to experience a noticeable difference in edge retention. Additionally, as a fully integrated...

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AEI Catalog 2014

AEI Catalog 2014

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