PRODUCT:
ViscoStat^®

SOURCE:
Ultradent Products, Inc.
South Jordan, Utah
800-552-5512

It would be really hard to practice quality crown and bridge without Ultradent’s ViscoStat^® hemostatic solution. I simply haven’t used anything that is as effective as this 20% ferric sulfate solution. To use it correctly, you must be somewhat aggressive with the material; this is not a product that you simply dab into place. Proper use requires using the Dento-Infusor^® tip (Ultradent Products, Inc.) to scrub the capillaries that are bleeding. This may seem counter-intuitive at first, but when you see the results you will understand.

In a perfect world we would not need a product like ViscoStat. Our patients would all have perfectly healthy gingival tissue and we would never nick the gingiva with a bur. But reality forces us to prepare teeth with edematous gingiva around it, and in these cases ViscoStat is a lifesaver. ViscoStat Clear, while not as effective as ViscoStat (it is aluminum chloride rather than ferric sulfate), is the material of choice when using it on tissue adjacent to all-ceramic preparations, where ferric sulfate solutions are contraindicated.