title: Taking extreme care when retrieving broken tips.
authors.affiliation: Dental Hygiene Department, Raymond Walters College, University of Cincinnati.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Carroll
mesh_terms: D003762:Dental Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012534:Dental Scaling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010514:Periodontal Pocket / Q000150:complications; D010519:Periodontium; D016745:Root Planing / Q000295:instrumentation