Instruments for oral examination – examining the oral cavity is a job for a specialist, who can assess the oral cavity by inspection and palpation.
Various instruments help in this work: probes, dental looking glasses, tweezers and forceps. For therapeutic procedures, various rotary instruments, drills, chisels and scalpels are also part of the toolkit.
To assess areas that cannot be seen, imaging tools (X-ray, ultrasound, CT or MRI) and fibre-optic instruments (endoscopes) can help. An examination of the oral cavityis usually not painful, just somewhat unpleasant.
