Supragingival powder jets

describes the use of fine powders or powder mixtures for producing a composition for the powder jet cleaning of supragingival tooth surfaces, the abrasion of the supragingival tooth surface caused by powder irradiation is not more than 0.15 mm · 3 ·, based on a tooth surface of 10 mm x 2 · at an irradiation time of 2 min at a jet pressure of 4 bar and a distance between tooth surface and jet nozzle of not more than 2.5 mm.