Vacutainers for Medical, Dental and Maxillo Facial procedures suitable for all centrifuges.

Individual tubes.

RED PLASTIC.  Sterile, 10ml with 1.5cc of Anticoagulant Citrate Dextrose (ACD-A) & Buffer Solution.  Supplied in packs of 25 individual tubes.

MultiPacks of 100.  

YELLOW GLASS. Sterile, 10ml with Citrate dextrose anticoagulant and gel separator.  

GREEN PLASTIC. Sterile, Silicone-coated. 10ml. 

RED GLASS.  Sterile, 10ml without additives or silicone coating. 

Yellow anticoagulant tubes allow you to pellet the PRP without activating the platelets or clumping them.  Yellow tubes are sometimes known as “clot activator tubes” or “yellow stopper tubes.” Typically used for Liquid PRF and Facial Aesthetics. 

Green tubes are durable PET plastic in 10ml used to obtain a plasma sample and contain heparin to prevent the blood from clotting.  Green tubes are typically used for sticky bone, liquid PRF and facial aesthetics. 

Red glass without additives or silicone coating is typically used for A-PRF membranes or cases where a low concentration of platelets is required.

A-PRF can help with healing after a free gingival graft, dry socket, or medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw. It can also reduce pain and the risk of infection after an extraction.  In aesthetics, A-PRF is used as an under-eye filler to promote an organic, regenerative anti-aging effect.  A PRF can also help treat musculoskeletal injuries.

ABOUT CENTRIFUGED BLOOD

BLOOD is centrifuged to separate it into its various components inside a centrifuge that spins at high speed, exerting a force which isolates the blood into its several components.  Centrifuged blood consists typically of three coloured layers:

• A straw-coloured top layer comprises the liquid portion of blood—plasma—at c 55% of the total blood volume. 

• A thin plasma layer of white blood cells and platelets. 

• A lower layer compromising c 45% of the total is the red blood cells and may appear bright red or dark red depending upon the oxygen content of the cells.

BLOOD CELLS are leukocytes (white and erythrocytes (red)

BLOOD PLASMA is a yellowish substance into which blood cells are suspended. Plasma comprises water and various dissolved molecules including glucose, salts, proteins, clotting factors, immunoglobulins, hormones, and carbon dioxide from metabolic processes. 

CENTRIFUGES for blood separation make use of either a fixed-angle rotor or a swing-out rotor such as the system from Ariston Dental.  Ideally, a centrifuges should be chosen that has the potential to handle tubes of numerous capacities.  Swing-out rotor centrifuges enable particles to deposit uniformly at the tube’s base and often can utilise lower centrifugal forces for less energy consumption and similar outcomes.  By comparison, a fixed-angle rotor spins blood to the opposite side of the tube, from which it slides down to the base. Fixed angle devices use higher centrifugal forces which has the benefit of quicker separation.

CENTRIFUGE CYCLES.  Each technique relies on a different tube, time and centrifuge cycle.  Tpically a centrifuge speed of ±4000 -6500 RPM is considered adequate while a centrifuge speed of ±6500 RPM would be ideally suited for the majority of the research applications.  Swing-out rotor centrifuges may achieve the same outcome at the lower RPM range.