WaveOne® Gold Large, 31mm (3)

WaveOne® Gold Large · 31 mm · pack of 3

Long canalsWide canalsOpen apexRetreatment

Long tooth, wide canal, open apex

Long roots? Thirty-one millimetres is the length for a long canine, a tall premolar or any root where a 25 mm file leaves the rubber stop short of the reference cusp. This is the Large – the widest canals in the range – in that length.

This pack: 3 × WaveOne® Gold Large (045/.05v), 31 mm · pre-sterilised blister, single-patient use
Made by Dentsply Sirona – Maillefer, Switzerland

The widest apex, on the lowest taper

A 0.45 mm tip is a substantial apical preparation, and the Large carries it on a .05 variable taper – the lowest in the range. That combination is deliberate: the file that opens the apex furthest is also the one that takes the least coronal dentine per millimetre.

It is the file for a wide canal, an immature or resorbed apex, or a retreatment where previous instrumentation has already spent some of the coronal thickness and there is none to give.

Where a conventional large file would cost you the crown

Take a fixed-taper instrument to a 0.45 mm apical size and the coronal third goes with it. The regressive geometry is what lets this file finish the apex while leaving the pericervical dentine that carries the restoration.

As with every size above the Primary, gauging decides. The Large is a step-up, reached because the Medium sat loose at length – not a starting point.

On the taper figure: .05 is the nominal designation at the tip. The taper eases coronally rather than holding .05 up the shaft, and Dentsply publish no average-taper figure for WaveOne® Gold, so none is quoted here.

› Largest in the range. 0.45 mm apical on a .05 variable taper.

› Preserves coronal dentine. The lowest taper in the range, where the apex is widest.

› Open apices and retreatment. Where the canal is already wide.

Complete the system

Questions we get asked

› Do I still need a glide path? Yes. Secure the canal to length with a #10 hand file and confirm patency, then the Gold Glider creates the glide path in the same reciprocating motion. The instructions for use require a secured, patent canal first.

› Is the Large a starting file? No. The sequence starts at the Primary; the Large is where gauging takes you when the Medium is loose at length.

› What motor do I need? Any motor carrying the WaveOne setting – X-Smart® Pro+, X-Smart® Go, VDW.SILVER® and VDW.GOLD® RECIPROC®.

WaveOne® Gold Large · 045 · .05 variable taper · 31 mm · gold heat-treated NiTi · pre-sterilised, single use · Dentsply Sirona · mfr code A0753231G0L03