ADC Practical Exam List

Equipment, Tools, Materials

Materials,
aterials , Burs and
Teeth

A- Equipment

1- Manikin / phantom head (recommended but not

essential)
2- Bench mounting pole + cheeks (essential if you
aren’t going to buy phantom head)
3- ADC Dental model / Columbia dentoform (SM-PVR-
860)
4- Amalgamator & light curing units
5- X-ray facility
6- Compressor air motor + hand-pieces high and slow
speed or micromotor

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com
 B- Tools & Materials

Amalgam
- Amalgam carrier
- Condenser (big & small)
- Spoon Excavator
- Ball burnisher
- Amalgam carvers (hollenback, discoid-cleoid &
interproximal carver)
- Amalgam capsules (spill 3 or at least spill 2,
preferably slow setting amalgam either SDI
extended carving time, SDI slow setting or
Chinese GK brand)
- Wide matrix bands (preferable No.3) or pre-
contoured matrix band & matrix retainer
(tofflemire)
- Largest wooden wedges
- Metal strips

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com

Composite
- Packable composite syringe or gun with
capsules
- Teflon tapes
- Plastic instrument
- Transparent (celluloid) strip
- Micro brushes
- Wooden or plastic wedges
- SofLex discs & mandrill
- Finishing strips (Sof-Lex strips coarse/medium
& fine/superfine)
- Composite polishing paste & rubber cups

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com

Miscellaneous
- Diagnostic set (mirror, probe & tweezer)
- Endo explorer
- Finger spreader size 15
- Enamel hatchet
- Gingival marginal trimmer
- Periodontal probe
- Scalpel + handle
- Dental floss & retraction cord
- Provisional crown material
(preferably Protemp 4 with the gun)
- Putty impression material
- Rubber dam kit: punch, clamp holder, frame,
clamps (anterior, premolar and molar) & dam
sheets (preferably Flexidam by Roeko)
- Wedjets
- Periapical films size 1 &2
- Rinn film holders: anterior (blue) posterior
(yellow) & bitewings (red)
- Fender wedges
Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com
 C- Burs
N.B: The following burs are personal preferences
and not necessarily to use all of them

A) For Crown Preparation Tasks

Preferably diamond burs BLUE bands:
1 - Tapered diamond round end with tip diameter
0.5mm for full gold crown (FGC) prep & palatal
reduction of porcelain fused to metal (PFM)
2- Small & large football (flame) diamond for FGC
occlusal reduction
3- Straight (parallel-sided) diamond flat end with
tip diameter 1.2mm for PFM crown prep labially
and proximally
4- Composite finishing diamond (yellow band) or
Sof-Lex discs for finishing

B) For Amalgam Cavity Preparation Task

1- Carbide Burs No. 330 & 245
2- Slow speed small carbide round bur
3- Slow speed small diamond inverted cone

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com
 C) For Composite Cavity Preparation Tasks (on
caries-simulated teeth)
1- Slow speed carbide round burs size 1/2,1,2
2- Composite fine finishing diamond (yellow
band)
3- Slow speed bur No. 245 (or high speed on
the slow speed adaptor) for class II

D) For Endodontic Access Task

1- Endo access bur
2- Endo Z bur
3- Diamond tapered or straight
4- Mueller bur (slow speed long shank bur with
round end)
5- Shofu Dura-White burs for finishing (tapered
with fine end and the flame shaped)

E) For Composite Restorations Tasks Finishing

1- Sof-Lex Discs
2- Small & large football (flame) finishing
diamonds (yellow band)
3- Composite fine finishing stone (yellow band)

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com
 D- Teeth

A) Plain Ivorine teeth (Columbia)

it's recommended to buy:
- #11 for class IV composite restoration – (5-7
each)
- #36,46,37,47 for FGC crown prep -- (7-10 each)
- #13,23,33,43 for PFM crown prep --(7-10 each)
- #15,25 for class II composite restoration -- (5
each)
- #14,24,16,26 for provisional crown -- (3 each)
- #17,27,36,46 for class II amalgam restoration --
(5 each)
- #35,45 for class II amalgam cavity prep -- (5-7
each)

B) Caries-Simulated teeth (from onedental)

Mostly you will need to buy
- #11 MD, #12 D, #46 MOD (5-7 each)
and buy 1-2 teeth of upper 5&6

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com
 C) Endo teeth (from onedental)
- 16 & 26 (at least 5-7 each)
- 36 & 46 (only 1 or 2 teeth as they still have
only 2 canals in onedental)

Good Luck
Dr M oha med Sol ima n
BDS, ADC Certified

Dr Mohamed Soliman
E-mail: drmfsoliman@gmail.com