What is a dental lathe used for?

Answer 1

It is a piece of dental laboratory equipment used for polishing crowns and dentures. It's basically a bench-mounted electric motor that accepts abrasive and polishing attachments (such as abrasive wheels, sanding drums, and rag wheels). it looks like a bench grinder and it might be more accurate to refer to it as such, but dentistry has chosen to call it a "lathe", perhaps because it sounds more professional. A dental lathe bears no resemblance to a machinist's lathe, either in form or function.