eBay Dental Air Polisher – Repairing and Maintaining the O-ring problem

I’ve been using the eBay Air Polisher (shown below) for a few years now and overall it has performed relatively well, except for one major problem.  The problem is that one of the o-rings wears out very quickly and causes water leakage.  To fix the problem you will only need to replace the o-ring with a high quality version and then lube the o-ring area with a very small amount of lubricant after every use.

Purchase Links

18-OR-002 O-rings ($6.95)

Autoclavable Silicone Lubricant ($18.95)

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This is the air polisher fully assembled.

This is the air polisher fully assembled.

Autoclavable Silicone lubricant

Autoclavable Silicone lubricant

Tip detached from the main body of the air polisher.  Arrow pointing to the o-ring that needs to ben replaced

Tip detached from the main body of the air polisher. Arrow pointing to the o-ring that needs to be replaced

 

Mark Frias, RDH

 

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