IS/ISO 6360 : Part 2 : 2004 Dentistry — Number Coding System for Rotary Instruments Part 2 Shapes

Reaffirmed 2022

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2) which is identical with ISO 6360-2 : 2004 ‘Dentistry — Number coding system for rotary instruments — Part 2 : Shapes’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Dentistry Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This Standard has been published in two parts. The other part of the standard is:

Part 1 General characteristics

A wide variety of dental rotary instruments, including root-canal instruments, is manufactured throughout the world for use by the dental profession. This standard provides a general number coding system for all types of dental instrument, including accessories used in connection with these rotary instruments.

This Part 2 of standard was prepared in response to a need by the dental trade and industry and the dental profession for a universal system of classification and designation for these instruments. It establishes a comprehensive number coding system suitable for all dental rotary instruments by use of a 15-digit code number identifying general and specific characteristics of instruments or group of instruments.

The first group of three digits identifies the materials used for the working part of instruments.

The second group of three digits identifies the shanks and handles used for instruments.

The third group of three digits identifies the shapes of instruments.

The fourth group of three digits identifies the specific characteristics for group of instruments.

The fifth group of three digits identifies the nominal diameter of the working part of the instruments, nominal size.

The code numbers are generic code numbers. They do not provide exact product information. This information is given in the respective product standard for dental rotary instruments. For the application of the system and for the correct allocation of numbers or their identification, it is intended that the user consult this part of standard and Part 1 for general characteristics.

The content and format of this standard has been formulated according to guidelines published in the terminology standards listed in the Bibliography. Information provided in Annex A has been designed to help explain how those guidelines apply.

The text of the ISO standard has been approved as suitable for publication as Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are however not identical to those used in the Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the word ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as Indian Standard.

b) Comma (.) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.