Article NES-3791

Ligature ties and orthodontic pins share one thing in common: they both need to come off cleanly, without dragging or crushing the wire around them. The Article NES-3791 Pin & Ligature Cutter, fitted with tungsten carbide (T.C.) gold inserts, is built to handle exactly that job.
The gold-coated carbide cutting edge is designed to hold its sharpness through the kind of repeated hard contact that quickly dulls plain stainless steel jaws. That durability matters for a cutter that gets used constantly across nearly every adjustment appointment, since a dull edge tends to crush rather than cleanly shear whatever it’s cutting.
Handling both pins and ligatures with one instrument also means fewer tool switches during routine visits. Rather than reaching for one cutter for ligature wire and a separate one for pins, practitioners can rely on this single dual-purpose tool for both, streamlining the adjustment sequence.
A clean cut matters clinically too: a jagged or crushed cut end left on a pin or ligature tie can irritate the cheek or catch on soft tissue, causing ongoing discomfort until the next visit. This cutter’s precision-ground jaws are built to avoid that outcome.
Constructed on a stainless steel body, the plier is fully autoclavable, ready for the sterilization routine every clinical instrument depends on between patients.
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