The Bandbender™is a universal matrix system that custom shapes Tofflemire flat metal bands to proper convexity. With the Bandbender™ you can restore teeth correctly each and every time. It eliminates the need for an inventory of sectional matrixes and can change flat Tofflemire style bands that produce flat and faulty proximal shapes to a convex form that is ideal. It comes as a kit including everything needed to custom shape Tofflemire matrix bands and restore 72 teeth. Our supplier is Sure Dental Innovations
The kit contains:
- a stainless sterilizing cassette
- the Bandbender™ itself
- a special shaping bur in a straight handpiece
- a polishing bur in a straight handpiece
- spare burs
- matrixes and wedges for 72 cases
- a special scribing instrument
- a Quick Start Guide
- 25-page instruction manual on a memory stick
- BANDBENDER™ ADVANTAGES
- Restorations of proper contour and gingival adaptation are reliably produced even if virtually no coronal structure remains.
- Class II composite restorations are no longer limited to preparations with conservatively extended proximal boxes. Big can now be beautiful. Replace or shoe cusps without a hitch.
- Marginal fracture and food impaction from faulty contacts are avoided. Proper contour is achieved and strength is restored because there is sufficient bulk in the right places in the proximal restoration.
- Remember embrasures? With the Bandbender your occlusal embrasures will floss readily. Buccal embrasures will look right, and lingual embrasures will move food correctly for mastication.
- Eliminate clinical frustration– eliminate matrix switching mid-procedure, which is time-consuming and awkward, and often incurs bleeding and failed isolation during the switch.
- Cost -effective– eliminate time-wasted re-restoring failed contacts and the accompanying demoralization
- Eliminate pre-made sectionals, make your own custom sectionals . Sectionals can be created inexpensively and quickly and used with any ring system on the market. Forget expensive boxes of pre-made sectionals which sit unused for long periods of time in a drawer waiting for the right tooth to come along. Dial in the shape you want, when you want it.
- Rotated teeth and wide/broad contacts can be treated without difficulty
- Root furcations can be readily matrixed without overhang by contouring the gingival band into a hollow shape that mates closely to gingival floor and root morphology
- Better temporaries for inlays
- Anterior teeth with sub-tissue proximal lesions can be banded to develop proper contact and proximal contour.
These features are not found anywhere else in the matrix market.
DURABILITY:
The Bandbender™ never needs replacement , being made of surgical stainless steel, with no moving parts the Bandbender™ can be autoclaved indefinitely. The consumables are available from all supply houses. More Bandbender™ burs are available from our supplier, Sure Dental Innovations
PURCHASE
Purchase through pwalford@telus.net or Sure Dental Innovations at 1-877-277-2335. Purchase cost (2024) is CAN $700 including tax and shipping unless on special. This is on par with other matrix systems but there are no parts to wear out or brings to break.
GUARANTEE
There is a 90-day money-back guarantee if it does not meet its claims, (less shipping ).
SIMPLICITY:
Remember, there are no rings to fatigue, break, or get lost, no array of expensive sectional matrixes that never quite fit, no expensive pliers for ring placement or removal, and no obtuse or ineffective wedging devices to throw away.
TESTIMONIAL
Dr. David Mazgaj, DMD, General Practitioner, Buffalo, NY., April 2015
“I have used the Bandbender™ for several years. It is not an invention that ends up in the bottom drawer. I keep mine close at hand in my clinic and it is the go-to for large or difficult cases, and pulls success out of the hat each and every time. Thanks to Dr. Walford on behalf of my patients, for helping to bring my quality of work and peace of mind up a big notch.”
