PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an LED cartridge which can be replaced for a dental instrument having an incandescent lamp as a light source more easily and inexpensively than in a conventional way.SOLUTION: The LED cartridge includes an LED body, an element or a control circuit board for limiting a current flowing through the LED body, and an insulation protecting housing for housing the LED body and the current limit element or the control circuit board, or a housing made of an insulated protecting-cum-noncombustible resin.