Gloves for dental exams

What are your favourite type of gloves to wear when giving a dental exam. Also do you prefer to put a mask on too and a bib for the patient?

Personally I like latex gloves long cuffed. Always a mask for me part of the excitement. Also the pat doesn’t look right without a bib.

Love the surgical latex long cuff glove too,,,dont like the box type gloves

As a patient i would enjoy the old fashioned powdered brown ones .. reminds me of childhood dental check ups .

I prefer the paitents' point of view. Here I prefer plain white gloves.

The bib is mandatory, of course, either a nice big plastic bib, or a paper napkin on a silver metal chain that feels cold on the skin.

I prefer the traditional white latex exam gloves. The smell is incredible. It's especially great when the gloves are tight and hygienist or dentist stretch the cuffs of the gloves high over the sleeves of their gown.

Great thread! I prefer latex all the way — depending on the mood my color preference varies. I'm very fond of pink and black latex, but also am a fan of green latex (AloeTouch is the brand).

Great thread! I prefer latex all the way — depending on the mood my color preference varies. I'm very fond of pink and black latex, but also am a fan of green latex (AloeTouch is the brand).

I like how you think. Would like some pink latex to use next time I give an exam.

Latex gloves, mask, and definitely a bib. Also nice to have an assistant and some restraints!

Latex gloves, mask, and definitely a bib. Also nice to have an assistant and some restraints!

restraints nice touch but no assistant for me I like to keep the patient to myself.

I tried a lot of gloves with my wife but we settled on Ansell neoprene ones. I just love the smell and feel. My wife uses a plastic bib which is cold on the skin and after examining me she plays with my nipples underneath it while talking me through the work I need. Damn I have it good.

Never given and exam, my dentist and his staff are allways using nitrile. have not seen latex in years in the dental office.

Latex gloves are by far the best, mask and bib are a must for me.

My favorite gloves will always be long, tight, surgical gloves. I believe the doctor should wear a mask as well, I prefer the tie on “flat” masks over the cup-shaped masks. And yes, the patient will need at least one bib, preferably a long plastic bib that goes down to their knees and a shorter paper bib around their neck.

Prefer to be the patient but white gloves remind me of the dentist and pink or a light green for hygienists. I dont mind what type I just love the feeling of them in my mouth

Patient POV: I definitely prefer the white latex my dentist uses especially the assistant (she's great) and a bib is mandatory but they recently changed from plastic to the disposable ones with not even a chain or clip just resting below my chin. At one point they switched to blue nitrile when to white then to those vinyl ones for a while but luckily when back to white latex again. WOah

Latex gloves hands down, as i like them the best. But most dentists have gone to nitrile gloves now days and i cant stand the smell or taste of those gloves in my mouth.

I don’t wear gloves, as I prefer to be the patient, but I like long tight surgical gloves on the dentist. I also prefer for the dentist to wear a mask. As the patient, I want to be bibbed, maybe even draped/double-bibbed.