Dentistry inventions 01/06

20060019211 - Bracket having .017\" x .024\" arch slot, wire system and tube system: The present invention is directed to orthodontic brackets having wire slots therein that are less than about 0.0175 inches in width, and greater than about 0.0165 inches, and more preferably about 0.017 inches. Additionally, the slots of the brackets of the invention can have a shallower depth than prior art...

20060019212 - Bracket for orthodontic appliances: A bracket for orthodontic appliances comprises a plate-like base (10), first support means (20) mounted on the base (10) and defining a first housing (25) for a first archwire (30), and second support means (40) mounted on the base (10) and defining a second housing (45) for a second archwire...

20060019213 - Attachable orthodontic hook system: The invention involves an attachable orthodontic hook system for the attachment of an orthodontic hook to a vacuum formed orthodontic appliance, the hook designed for the reception of orthodontic elastics used to correct the patient's bite....

20060019214 - Compact tooth whitening device: The present invention relates to compact tooth whitening devices. The compact tooth whitening device includes an electromagnetic radiation source and an applicator that is removably attached. A tooth whitening agent may be placed in the applicator and applied to the user's teeth. The electromagnetic radiation source is activated to impart...

20060019215 - Equalizing device and method of measurement in teeth restorations: An equalizing device for measurement in teeth restoration with an implant (4) inserted in a jawbone or on a mounting piece (6) fastened to a manipulation implant provided in a working model. The equalizing device (7) is provided with an opening (11) circumferentially surrounding the mounting piece (6) whereby contact...

20060019216 - Dental retractor and method of use to produce anatomically accurate jaw models and dental prostheses: An improved retractor comprising one or more cheek positioning members and one or more lip positioning members has been developed. This retractor makes it possible to conduct X-ray CT or similar scans of the jaw and to construct anatomically accurate models of bone, teeth and gingival tissue. What is provided...

20060019217 - Anterior composite matrix dental restoration system: The anterior composite matrix dental restoration system provides a matrix for holding a composite filling material in place as it cures, and a tool for holding the matrix in place during the curing of the filling material. The matrix comprises a thin, flat, flexible, and transparent sheet of plastic material...

20060019218 - Combined interproximal reduction (ipr) disc/measurement tool: System and methods to perform interproximal reduction are disclosed. The system includes a series of discs with disc thicknesses calibrated to preset increments; and a shank coupled to each disc....

20060019219 - Method to determine position and orientation of the axis of a dental implant disposed directly in the mouth of the patient as well as a mounting piece: A method for determining the position and orientation of the axis of a dental implant disposed directly in the mouth of a patient wherein measurement data is obtained by measurement of the clinical situation of the implant in the patient's mouth, a first shape to be measured is applied to...

20060019220 - Sonophotodynamic therapy for dental applications: The present invention includes methods for killing microbes in an oral cavity or wound comprising: applying a photosensitizing composition to a locus or a wound; applying a fluid and sonic energy to the locus or wound; and irradiating the locus or wound with a light source at a wavelength absorbed...

20060014115 - Orthodontic crimping pliers: Pliers adapted to lock wires within thermoformed dental appliances following the partial enclosure of wires during the thermoforming process....

20060014116 - Orthodontic bracket system: A novel orthodontic bracket system comprised of orthodontic appliances, such as brackets or buccal tubes, with a vertical instead of conventional horizontal slot orientation. The occlusal-gingival slot orientation minimizes the risk of unintentional debonding of the bracket as a result of insertion and removal of the archwire. An archwire retention...

20060014117 - Kits comprising a plurality of bite ramps having different angles for orthodontic treatment: A bite ramp includes a tooth-attachment element and ramp element. The tooth-attachment element is sized and configured for bonding to the lingual surface of a person's tooth, while the ramp element may be either fixed or else hingedly or bendably adjustable relative to the tooth-attachment element. The ramp element provides...

20060014118 - Dental hygiene accessory: A dental hygiene accessory comprises a torch having a housing. A mirror is attached to the torch. A dispenser that holds a liquid plaque discloser is removably attached to the torch. In use, the dispenser is moved inwardly relative to the torch to dispense 3 or 4 drops of the...

20060014119 - Powered surgical instrument: A powered surgical instrument is provided. In some embodiments, the powered surgical instrument includes a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is configured to receive an expander adapted to expand the tooth socket. The instrument further may include a user-adjustable actuator disposed within...

20060014120 - Biofunctional dental implant: A biofunctional dental implant wherein a crown portion is connected to a root portion without the use of the conventional short screws, or the like. A flexible abutment projects upwardly from the root portion, and the crown portion is positioned in surrounding engagement with the flexible abutment. A threaded abutment...

20060014121 - Multi-tooth flosser: A multi-tooth flosser is disclosed. The multi-tooth flosser comprises a length of dental floss and a tray having a wall defining an interior and an exterior. The wall includes a top and a bottom opposite the top. The tray has receivers formed in the wall proximate the top and configured...

20060008760 - Systems and methods for varying elastic modulus appliances: The present invention provides improved devices, systems and methods for repositioning teeth from an initial tooth arrangement to a final tooth arrangement. Repositioning is accomplished with a system comprising a series of polymeric shell appliances configured to receive the teeth and incrementally reposition individual teeth in a series of successive...

20060008761 - Dental appliances having separate performance and bonding regions: A dental appliance having a performance region and a separate bonding region. The dental appliance further includes a mounting surface configured to attach to a substrate, with at least a portion of the mounting surface being formed from the bonding region. The performance region imparts one or more desired performance...

20060008762 - Optical composite cure radiometer and method: A radiometer and method for providing an indication of the amount of time (exposure duration) needed to cause a light curable dental resin composite material to maximally polymerize in response to the application of light from any light-curing source during the preparation of a dental restoration. It describes a radiometer...

20060008763 - Device and arrangement for fixture installation: A device and arrangement for installation of a fixture in a jaw bone comprises a fixture holder designed to cooperate with a guide member forming part of a template, via which guide member the fixture can be applied in its position in the jaw bone with the aid of the...

20060008764 - Dental suction device: A dental suction device includes a hollow tube having both flexibility and shape retainability. The tube has its both ends connected to a connector and is formed with suction holes. The connector can be connected to a vacuum source. A suction force produced by the vacuum source can thus be...

20060008765 - Dental delivery unit accessories: A cradle switch plug is placed into the cradle of a dental instrument in a dental delivery unit to deactivate the instrument thereby allowing the instrument to remain at the ready without endangering or spraying the user and/or assistants and/or patients. In addition, when an instrument is removed from an...

20060008766 - Dental instruments made from super-elastic alloys: Dental instruments and appliances made from a super-flexible alloy, which includes atoms from the group IVB and group VB transition metals and oxygen have superior strength and flexibility. The metal alloys are cold worked to increase the tensile strength of the dental instruments and appliances. Cold working the metal also...

20060008767 - Oral care devices: An oral care device for use in an oral cavity is provided. The oral care device comprises a handle having proximal and distal ends and an acoustic emitter disposed at the distal end of the handle. An emitting surface is acoustically coupled to the acoustic emitter. The emitting surface is...

20060008768 - Clamping device and dental handpiece including same: A clamping device for clamping a member to a housing includes a sleeve unit carried by the housing and having an open end formed with a tapered inner surface; and a chuck unit receivable within the open end of the sleeve unit, the chuck unit having an open end which...

20060008769 - Medical contra-angle handpiece: Medical, in particular dental, contra-angle handpieces for driving a dental instrument connected to the contra-angle handpiece with shafts arranged in the contra-angle handpiece for the transmission of the drive movement to the instrument. In order to achieve a reduction of sound emission and a reduction of the manufacturing and assembly...

20060008770 - Device forming part of a dental screwing arrangement: A device which can be used in dentistry operates with two different screwing functions. The functions can be performed with the aid of at least three different types of screwing tools. With a first screwing function, first and second components are held together, and, with the second screwing function, the...

20060008772 - Drill: A drill is used on a jaw bone with overlying soft tissue and underlying, more solid bone. The drill comprises a first portion which is provided with one or more first cutting edges and with a first width or diameter. Arranged behind the first portion there is a second portion...

20060008771 - Method for manufacturing disposable rotary cutting tools and disposable rotary tool for dental or medical applications: The shank (12) of a disposable rotary cutting tool (10) comprises a pipe section (16) cut from a drawn metal pipe. The tool head (14) is formed from a cut-out (18a, 18b) of a drawn metal sheet or a section of a metal tube by non-cutting machining. The pipe section...

20060008773 - Titanium-mesh umbrella device for bone grafting: A titanium-mesh umbrella for bone grafting used to combine with conventional implant and to hold bone graft in proper position during dental implant placement procedure, comprises: a titanium metal shank with one end as implant end and the other end having a pin hole at its center to form a...

20060008774 - Method of producing a dental prosthetic item: A method of producing a dental prosthetic item from a blank involving generation of a machining schedule for machining equipment includes the following steps: the blank exhibits at least two regions having different properties, the regions are displayed separately together with a reproduction of the prosthetic item, the position of...

20060008775 - Method of manufacturing an orthodontic model, and an orthodontic model produced thereby: An orthodontic model has a single block body made of catalyzing acrylic resin with a pair of prism boxes inversely positioned and interconnected by a pair of posterior walls with a window, the prism boxes have covers of the same shape and are provided with perimetral depressions for fitting to...

20060008776 - Method of designing the surface of a dental prosthetic item consisting of three dimensional data: A method and apparatus for designing the surface of a dental prosthetic item consisting of three-dimensional data, wherein three-dimensional data of a surface (30) of an electronically stored tooth (11) are used at least as part of the surface of the dental prosthetic item to be fabricated, to which end...

20060008777 - System and mehtod for making sequentially layered dental restoration: A method for preparing a layered dental restoration includes the following: (a) causing a virtual impression a dentition to be created; (b) causing a virtual restoration to be generated, wherein the virtual restoration includes sequential virtual layers; and (c) fabricating a dental restoration from the virtual restoration by sequentially building...

20060008778 - Cosmetic enhancement device: A cosmetic enhancement device for enhancement of at least one of at least a portion of a lip area and at least a portion of a perioral area of a wearer. The device comprises an engaging member for placement between a gum and musculature of the at least one of...

20060003281 - Shape memory self-ligating orthodontic brackets: Self-ligating orthodontic brackets which are at least partially formed of materials exhibiting shape memory each of which includes a base from which extends two spaced and opposing pairs of tie wings each pair of which define an archwire guide slot therebetween. Each of the opposing tie wings include portions which...

20060003282 - Shape memory self-ligating orthodontic brackets: Self-ligating orthodontic brackets with archwire retainers formed of materials exhibiting shape memory. Each bracket which includes a base from which extends two spaced and opposing pairs of tie wings each pair of which define an archwire guide slot therebetween. The retainers include at least one flange to retain an archwire...

20060003283 - Methods for correcting deviations in preplanned tooth rearrangements: Orthodontic treatment is achieved using a series of successive, removable repositioning appliances, such as thin polymeric shell appliances referred to as aligners. A set of aligners is originally provided to the patient. If the patient's treatment goes off course using the original set of aligners, further aligners are designed and...

20060003284 - Tooth whitening device: The invention is a locally mounted light source for light activation of tooth whitening compositions. A support in the form of a bridge attached to a retractor or as part of a mouth guard has integral therewith, a small and lightweight light source, such as could be provided by one...

20060003285 - Articulation navigation equipment for dental surgery: The articulation-navigation equipment for dental surgery includes the measuring parts which take basically the relation between the patient's face and teeth are arranged; the bite forks which is bite in the oral cavity of the patient and fixes the bite plane; the positioning wire for camper, extending to right and...

20060003286 - Tools and methods for measuring tooth reduction: A tooth reduction measuring system comprises a holding tool having a proximal end and a distal end. A flexible loop extends from the distal end and defines an opening. The loop has a thickness from the range about 1 mm to about 2 mm, and the opening a size large...

20060003287 - Tooth model for dental training and dental-training apparatus having the tooth model implanted therein: The present application is intended to provide a tooth model for dentistry practice and a dental practice device showing no deviation of tooth axis even after repeatedly attaching/detaching. At the side of the root of the tooth model for dentistry practice having a crown part 1 and a root part...

20060003288 - Impactor and paste feeder: A paste feeder for moving paste from a paste cartridge to a cavity in a patient's mouth is described. The paste feeder has a paste cartridge for holding a paste and a paste channel defining a cavity for holding the paste cartridge. The paste feeder also has a paste feeder...

20060003289 - Dental matrix retainer: p

20060003290 - Endosseous one-piece screw-type dental implants: Externally-threaded endosseous dental implants that include the structure of an implant body and an abutment/head also include, between the head portion and the body portion, a beveled shoulder portion that extends downwardly and outwardly from the head portion....

20060003291 - Implant arrangement: An implant is arranged with a thread which can be exposed to a jaw bone and which has a first extent in the longitudinal direction of the implant. Thread flanks are assigned second extents between the inner and outer peripheries of the thread. Along all or most of the first...

20060003292 - Digital manufacturing of removable oral appliances: A digitally-based method is described for the design and production of customized removable dental appliances. The plastic component of custom appliances is designed using software, and milled directly over a plaster model of the dentition. A patient's upper, lower, and bite-registered arches are digitized, registered to a bite or centric...

20060003293 - Methods for evaluating anticaries efficacy in occlusal surfaces of teeth: This invention relates to methods for evaluating caries, remineralization, demineralization, and/or erosion in occlusal surfaces of the teeth such as the pits and fissures. Specifically, the present invention relates to an intra oral method of evaluating caries on occlusal surfaces, comprising: a. preparing a dental specimen having at least one...