Multiple Choice
You are performing a periodontal maintenance appointment and choose to use the Gracey 14/15 curet in a periodontal pocket on the mesial of tooth #30.How should the instrument look when it is properly adapted?
A) The terminal shank should be parallel to the long axis of #30.
B) The terminal shank should be diagonal across #30.
C) The terminal shank should be leaning toward the distal of #29.
D) The terminal shank should be horizontal across #30.
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