A sterile, hand-held manual dental instrument designed for cutting, scraping, and removing the carious dentine of a decayed tooth or other pathological bone tissue within the oral cavity. It is made of high-grade stainless steel typically designed as a double-ended instrument, having a central handle, with small, sharp, spoon-, scoop-, or spatula-shaped blades that have sharp cutting/gouging edges. This is a single-use device.