W&H dental handpieces: your buyer’s guide​

Explore W&H’s range of straight, contra-angle and surgical handpieces, with options designed to support a wide variety of restorative, surgical and specialist procedures.

W&H is a leading manufacturer of high-quality handpieces to meet all clinical needs, with an extensive portfolio to cover a full raft of treatments. The offering includes a complete synergistic handpiece maintenance, service and decontamination solution. 

Making the right choice when investing in handpieces is imperative as they are among some of the most important tools that a dentist uses on a day-to-day basis.

Here are some of the elements that you should consider when looking for handpieces that suit your clinical needs and preferences.

Top considerations

Air or electrcity

Handpieces are powered one of two ways – air or electricity. Which one you choose will determine speed and usability as they both offer something very different. Air-driven handpieces, tend to have a higher speed with lower torque. They are lighter, easier to handle and smaller in head height than those using electric motors and, as such, are a popular option.

Speed-increasing

The speed-increasing Synea Fusion from W&H offers a wealth of features that make it reliable, efficient, and easy-to-use. The handpiece has been designed to ensure minimal aerosol production and quiet running. The W&H speed-increasing handpiece is used in conjunction with an electric motor allowing it to run at maximum speeds of 200,000 rpm whilst offering impressive torque, control and precision. Due to the maximum speeds being lower, aerosol creation is reduced.

Illumination

Handpiece illumination makes a big difference to your working life and with the advent of enhanced LED offers daylight grade illumination, which is kinder on your eyes, giving improved visibility, better colour definition, contrast and reduced heat. W&H’s LED+ handpieces provide top levels of enhanced visibility thereby reducing eye stress. The colour rendereing index (CRI) is an important aspect of artificial illumination with a perfect colour rendition having an index value of 100.

Decontamination

Handpieces need to endure ongoing rigorous sterilisation to be a good investment long-term. Decontamination is an essential part of daily practice, with every instrument reprocessed multiple times a day, sometimes six days a week. Ultimately, only a quality-made handpiece that has been designed with sterilisation in mind will be able to withstand such a demanding routine without compromising on functionality or performance. All W&H handpieces are designed to be thermo washer disinfectable and sterilisable.

W&H offers comprehensive aftercare ensuring you have access to technical support from qualified professionals, regular servicing, an attractive warranty, and a quality repair service that uses authentic replacement parts.

Turbines

Enjoy added benefits with the W&H Synea range of high quality straight and contra-angle handpieces offering exceptional ergonomics and reliability enabling you to maintain an efficient workflow.

Synea turbines offer high speed with low weight and all have a hygienic head anti-retraction system to prevent cross infection by minimizing aerosol.

Synea Vision Turbines

• Four head sizes available including TK-94 L micro turbine, ideal for paediatric dentistry and harder access areas
• Shadow free illumination LED+ illumination for enhanced visibility
• Five-port spray for exceptional cooling
• Up to 410,000 rpm.

Synea Fusion Turbines

• Two head sizes available, mini and midi
• Available with and without LED+ illumination
• Four-port spray for exceptional cooling
• Up to 390,000 rpm.

Straight and contra-angle handpieces

The Synea series includes two high quality handpiece ranges, offering uncompromising user comfort, innovation and long service life, guaranteeing excellent treatment results for restoration and prosthetics.

Synea Vision

• A full range of speeds, from 2:1 speed reducing to 1:5 speed increasing to suit your treatment needs
• Speed reducing handpieces with optimum service life and quiet operation, requiring an electric motor
• Practical design with stainless steel external parts and coating for easy cleaning and effective protection
• Durable monobloc design for excellent comfort and grip
• Outstanding, compact glass rod illumination
• Effective cooling
• Easy bur change
• 36-month warranty.

Synea Power Edition

These durable 1:4 high-speed contra-angle handpieces are ideally designed for heavy-duty applications, including removal of fillings, crowns and bridges and high strength advanced ceramic materials like zirconia.

• Available with and without LED+ illumination
• Three-port spray for exceptional cooling
• Up to 390,000 rpm.

Surgical handpieces

• Ideal illumination with natural reproduction of red tones
• A full range of surgical handpieces available from standard straight and contra-angles to WS-91 with 45° head and SZ-75 a specialist zygomatic handpiece to suit your treatment needs
• A full range of speeds, from 20:1 to 1:2.7 for treatment indications including: apical resection, osteotomy, apical trepanning and bone modelling
• External and integrated spray available
• Fatigue-free working thanks to optimal ergonomics
• Can be dismantled for thorough cleaning.

Prophy handpieces

The Proxeo range of prophy handpieces are ideally designed for the mechanical removal of plaque and biofilm

• 4:1 contra-angle and straight available
• Universal with snap on adaptor for all standard screw in and snap on cups and brushes.

So, why choose W&H?

W&H’s exceptional reputation for providing an unrivalled aftercare service alongside high quality products is based on its many years of experience in the market, making it the obvious choice when looking for a new handpiece.

There’s no doubt that selecting a dental handpiece can be a painstaking task. However, by sourcing top-class solutions from a trusted manufacturer, you are sure to find ‘the one’ that ticks all the boxes and meets your expectations now and in the future.

Choose reliable, ergonomic handpieces designed to improve your working life.

This article is sponsored by W&H.