Comparison HEICO Dental System with Dental Diamonds manufactured by our competition.


HEICO dental diamonds are based on over 50 years of experience and guarantee the highest quality. To become international status type fair, HEICO instruments are CE certified

Which are the signs of a good dental diamond bur?

In most production plants, manufacturing of the burs is effectuated in 4 steps:

  1. Steel or Inox-Steel blanks
  2. Application of the bonding layer
  3. Electrolytical coating with diamond-powder
  4. Nickel fixation layer

The prime differences are already within the choice of the chrome steel. So, manufacturers very often have to chromium plate or gold plate their Shanks in order to cover up the traces of negligent work. Our Shanks are manufactured out of high-quality Inox-Steel in electronically steered automatic rotating machine with extreme precision within 0,005mm. These hardened Inox Shanks are absolutely smooth and do not break during normal use.

Heico Bohrer Konkurrenz Bohrer
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The coating and the composition of the bonding layer is the secret of every manufacturer. This is decisive for the hold of the diamond grain on the blank. Obviously centrifugal forces are enormous upon up to 400'000 rpm.

The choice of the quality of the Diamond Grains again is very important. Dirty and unevenly broken (cheap) diamond-powder has a bad cutting-force. Therefore, we only use only first class natural diamond for the HEICO DENTAL DIAMOND SYSTEM: actually, many finer grains cut just as well or even better than few coarse grains; but this does not apply to every purpose. In fine diamond granulation, the space between chippings is small and therefore, the diamond "smears" quicker, this for example when working with gold, amalgam or similar materials.

Conclusions:

  • Cautiously working dentists use "coarse or standard" for the coarse modelling of the preparation and always finish their work with "fine or extra fine".
    The granulation of our diamond burs is coordinated and in uninterrupted application gives an absolutely smooth preparation-surface.
Super Coarse 150 Micron

black ring
Coarse 130 Micron green ring
Standard 110 Micron -
Fine 40 Micron

red ring
Extra-Fine 15 Micron yellow ring
  • The old, used diamond does not give the finishing touch because there are still individual, coarse diamond-grains and these cannot polish the preparation grooves. (No joiner gives the finishing touch to the last coating with a used, coarse abrasive paper.)
  • When producing our HEICO DENTAL DIAMOND SYSTEM, we have considered all quality-signs.
    One-way diamonds are coated with saphire and therefore of bad quality. For this reason, HEICO does not manufacture one-way burs.

Tip: All diamonds are subject to wear. The pointed diamond splittings are always being flattened in the rotating direction of the bur. When changing the rotating direction, it therefore cuts better. This has to be considered when finishing the extension, for example when making an inlay compound.