$734.90

• Extended straight attachment; 50% lighter handpiece weight
• Star type; fits Midwest Shorty, Star Titan, and Rhino
• Non-latex soft cup; rubber construction; superior elasticity
• Nonslip grip; noiseless; uniform and gentle performance
• CDC-compliant extended length; no handpiece-mucosa contact
• Quantity: 1000 per Box

Preventive Technologies ESA Disposable Prophy Angle, Extended Straight Attachment, Star Type is used for professional dental prophylaxis tooth polishing during hygiene recall appointments, new patient examinations, and preventive dental visits where the hygienist attaches the ESA prophy angle directly to the Midwest Shorty, Star Titan, or Rhino slow-speed handpiece without a separate nose cone attachment, with the ESA's integrated extended straight attachment body eliminating the need for the traditional separate metal straight nose cone that conventionally connects the handpiece chuck to the prophy angle. By eliminating the separate metal nose cone, the ESA design reduces the total weight of the prophy angle and handpiece assembly by 50% compared to the traditional handpiece-nose cone-prophy angle configuration, meaningfully reducing the wrist and forearm fatigue that dental hygienists experience during extended daily prophylaxis appointments where the prophy angle is held and manipulated continuously across multiple patients throughout the day. The non-latex soft rubber cup construction addresses the cup material quality difference between ESA's rubber cup and the injection-molded plastic cups used by many competing disposable prophy angle manufacturers.

Injection-molded plastic cups are stiffer and less elastic than rubber, which can cause the cup to lose its concentricity and smooth rotational shape when splayed into the sulcus or pushed interproximally during polishing, resulting in increased splatter, inconsistent cup contact with the tooth surface, and the wobbling action that reduces polishing efficiency and patient comfort. The ESA's non-latex rubber soft cup maintains its elastic concentricity through the full range of sulcular and interproximal prophy cup deflection during polishing, providing consistent cup contact with the tooth surface and reduced splatter throughout the appointment. These are the same non-latex cups preferred by 4 out of 5 dental hygienists in Preventech's clinical comparison with their Pivot NL prophy angles. The nonslip grip on the ESA's attachment body provides the tactile surface friction needed for secure handpiece handling during the polishing procedure without the slipping that smooth-surface attachment bodies can experience when the clinician's gloved fingers are moistened by splatter or prophy paste during the appointment.

The noiseless and uniform rotational performance of the ESA provides the quiet, consistent prophy cup rotation that supports patient comfort during the polishing procedure and signals reliable prophy angle mechanical performance throughout each individual polishing cup's use. The extended straight attachment length maintains the handpiece body outside the patient's oral cavity during the polishing procedure, ensuring the handpiece body does not contact oral mucous membranes or non-intact skin and meeting CDC compliance requirements for handpiece use without heat sterilization between patients in states where CDC guidelines govern dental handpiece infection control requirements. Dental hygienists who perform prophylaxis polishing across a full daily appointment schedule find the ESA's 50% weight reduction compared to the traditional nose cone assembly significantly reduces cumulative wrist and forearm fatigue across back-to-back hygiene appointments. Practices using Midwest Shorty, Star Titan, or Rhino slow-speed hygiene handpieces find the ESA provides the disposable prophy angle format that directly attaches to these handpiece types without requiring a compatible nose cone for each polishing setup. Preventive Technologies ESA Disposable Prophy Angle, Extended Straight Attachment gives dental practices a 50%-lighter non-latex soft rubber cup disposable prophy angle that attaches directly to Midwest Shorty, Star Titan, and Rhino handpieces, providing noiseless uniform polishing performance, nonslip grip, reduced wrist fatigue, better elasticity and less splatter than injection-molded plastic cups, CDC-compliant extended length, 1000 angles per box.