Dentistry inventions 04/08

20080096150 - Dental articles, methods, and kits including a compressible material: The present invention provides dental articles, kits, and methods including a compressible material. The compressible material optionally includes a hardenable dental composition (e.g., an adhesive or primer) that can be useful for bonding the dental article (e.g., an orthodontic appliance) to a tooth structure. Removal of excess hardenable and/or hardened... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080096151 - Digital orthodontic treatment planning: A digital orthodontic treatment planning system provides a practitioner with a digital representation of at least a part of a tooth of a patient within a three-dimensional environment. The practitioner may provide input indicative of a desired movement for a tooth of a patient via a user interface. Based on... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080096152 - System and method for positioning three-dimensional brackets on teeth: System and methods for positioning 3D virtual brackets on teeth for the precise positioning of conventional brackets and wire. Various reference features may be calculated for the teeth and used to calculate a position for the virtual bracket. Reference features that are calculated include curve of Spee, Andrew's plane, and... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080096154 - Dental camera with enhanced features: An intraoral viewing device includes a handle having a distal end, and a mirror mount, connected to the distal end of the handle, for insertion into a mouth of a patient. An image sensor is contained in the handle and coupled to provide electronic images of the inside of the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080096160 - Apparatus for testing dental occlusion of a person under test using two occlusion force sensors: An apparatus for testing dental occlusion of a person under test includes a dental occlusion sensing unit that includes two occlusion force sensors mounted fixedly and respectively to two mounting ends of a connecting tube and operable to sense an occlusion force applied on each of top and bottom faces... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080096161 - Pneumatic dental care device: A pneumatic dental care device for in-home use that is particularly suited for cleaning and providing prophylaxis of teeth, gingiva, and other oral tissue wherein pressurized air is directed into a user's oral cavity to clean teeth, remove oral debris and to both stimulate and massage gum line tissue. The... Agent: Hayworth, Chaney & Thomas, P.A.

20080096153 - Characterization of an antibiotic impregnated delivery system as an intracanal medicament in endodontic therapy: Endodontic fibers comprising a biocompatible polymer vehicle permeable to medicaments, or combinations of medicaments are described. Such fibers can be used, for example, in a method for the local delivery and sustained release of medicaments to periodontal or intracanal treatment sites. Endodontic fibers described include modified periodontal fibers and intracanal... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080096155 - Illuminated dental prop: The present invention relates to an illuminated dental prop for holding a patient's mouth open during dental procedures. The illuminated dental prop is completely disposed within the patient's mouth during use and includes a body portion and a lighting assembly that is selectively detachable from the body to allow for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080096156 - Illumination system for dentistry applications: A dental illumination system includes an adjustable self-supporting frame and a lamp head coupled to the frame. The lamp head includes a housing and a spacer having formations that is adapted to removably mechanically couple the lamp head to a reference device, again having formations, for facilitating illumination of a... Agent: Discus Dental Impressions, Inc.

20080096157 - Ultrasonic dental tool having a light source: An ultrasonic dental insert having at least one light source. A first transducer generates ultrasonic vibrations. A connecting body has a proximal end and a distal end having a tip attached thereto. The proximal end is attached to the first transducer so as to receive the ultrasonic vibrations therefrom and... Agent: Discus Dental Impressions, Inc.

20080096158 - Dental impression trays: Impression trays for taking dental impression of a subject are discussed herein with particular discussion extended to impression trays know as triple trays. Triple trays are so coined for their ability to simultaneously capture the upper and lower impressions and the bite registration of a subject during a same dental... Agent: Discus Dental Impressions, Inc.

20080096159 - Support system for dentistry: A dental lamp boom hinge includes a pivot supporting a dental lamp head and a base supporting the pivot where the pivot may be rotated about a substantially vertical axis with respect to the base. The rotational movement between the pivot and the base is damped with a damping device.... Agent: Discus Dental Impressions, Inc.

20080096162 - Therapeutic and protective dental device useful as an intra-oral delivery system: A dental device has a U-shaped carrier with at least one channel for embracing an arch of teeth. The carrier has recessed insets in the channel. Discrete inserts carrying a beneficial agent can fit into the insets and release the agent gradually. When the device is used in a primarily... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080096163 - Tip wrench for ultrasonic dental tool: A dental instrument comprising a handpiece with a threaded extension and a working tool for attachment to the extension includes a wrench mounted on the distal end of the handpiece for use in attaching the tool to the extension. The wrench comprises a nose piece mounted on the front end... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080096164 - Chemically impregnated absorbent gingival retraction cord comprising silk: An absorbent and degradation resistant knitted gingival retraction cord comprising silk is formed from one or more strands by interlocking a plurality of loops. As a whole, the knitted retraction cord comprises at least about 50% silk which, when manufactured so as to have a knitted structure, exhibits resistance to... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080096165 - Cheek and lip retractor: A cheek and lip retractor is defined by a supporting member (4) supporting a pair of retracting elements (2) to be inserted at least partially in a patient's mouth (3), by a light source (11) fixed to the supporting member (4), and by an optical device (17) for the transmission... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080096166 - Ceramic reinforcement bars for direct dental bridge: A direct dental bridge, built in the mouth of a patient, comprising Zirconium oxide or Aluminium oxide reinforcement bars (19, 20) onto which the pontic of the bridge is assembled. The ceramic bars of the present direct dental bridge bond better to dental filling materials and dental bonding resins than... Agent: Dennison Associates

20080096167 - Grinder disk: A grinding disk has a pilot region or ring that does not include abrasive material. The pilot region aids in positioning the disk between teeth or in other orientations. The disk may be used in conjunction with a guard. For example, the guard may include grip enhancements such as finger... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080096168 - Tooth implant: A dental implant system, comprising an implant and a secondary piece, which is fixed to the implant such as not to rotate and on which a superior construction may be installed. A positioning tool is also provided, to transfer the position of the implant in the mouth of the patient... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080090196 - Dental cover and dental brace adapted for use with a cover: A dental cover and dental braces adapted for use with a cover for concealing a person's teeth and/or braces from view is provided. The dental cover has particular application as a device for hiding dental brace retainers while being worn, which many people find unattractive, or for covering aesthetic imperfections... Agent: Adorno & Yoss, LLP

20080090198 - Apparatus for caries detection: An apparatus for imaging a tooth having a light source with a first spectral range and a second spectral range. A polarizing beamsplitter (18) light having a first polarization state toward the tooth and directs light from the tooth having a second polarization state along a return path toward a... Agent: Carestream Health Inc,

20080090201 - Dental articulator apparatus having visible coding of teeth and jaw positions with respect to post-treatment goals: A visible coding of components of an articulator apparatus that mount maxillary and mandible casts indicates the relative correspondence between post-treatment goals and the present locations of a person's teeth and jaws. From another aspect, the visible coding indicates at least a direction, and preferably, a direction and a distance,... Agent: Terrance A. Meador Incaplaw

20080090197 - Method and apparatus for selecting non-opacious dental materials: A method and system for selecting dental constructions using translucent materials that match an individual's preexisting tooth appearance uses a set of reference templates. The reference templates are constructed from layers of various translucent dental materials positioned on bases constructed from actual or simulated tooth structures. The layers of translucent... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20080090199 - Dental optical diagnostic apparatus: In the field of dental care, diagnoses have been and being made by means of X-ray images, visual observation, explorer, palpation, fluorometery, insertion of a pocket probe and observation, observation by means of a root canal meter and the use of a Doppler flood flowmeter. However, such diagnoses are invasive... Agent: Hauptman Kanesaka & Berner

20080090200 - Intraoral device: An intraoral device includes a one-piece, flexible, injection molded body made of a single homogeneous material. The body includes upper front and rear flaps, and lower front and rear flaps. Upper edges of the front flaps and lower edges of the lower flaps are sealed by respective upper and lower... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080090202 - Disposable dental instrument: A disposable dental instrument of the compressed air drive type is disclosed for use in performing dental procedures on a workpiece. The disposable dental instrument is constructed from two mating shells and a core. Each shell incorporates a mating surface and said shells are joined using various bonding methods to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080090203 - Rotatable file dental treating device: A rotatable file dental treating device (1) driven by a motor (2) includes elements (3, 18) for determining a root-canal position instruction related to a tooth apex, elements (4) for stopping the motor according the file (1) position with respect to the position instruction and first members (5, 6) for... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080090204 - Clamping cord with polymeric wedge component, and method of affixation: The present invention relates to the affixation of dental dams and Class III matrixes utilized in conservative dentistry and oral surgery. In particular, the present invention relates to a device and method for retaining and stabilizing a dental dam or Class III matrix, or other device, in the mouth of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080090205 - Dental dam clamp: A dental dam clamp comprises first and second spaced, opposing jaws and respective first and second tooth engaging portions on the jaws. The first and second tooth engaging portions are positioned in confronting relation to one another and are biased toward one another by a resilient member when the jaws... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080090206 - Extractor for broken tooth root: The invention is an extractor for roots of broken teeth. This extractor has a square head spiral. That square head spiral has a spiral anchor and a square head with optional depressions in the sides of that square head. In that square head opposite the spiral anchor is a thread... Agent: William M. Selenke

20080090207 - Customized dental prosthesis for periodontal- or osseointegration, and related systems and methods: A dental prosthesis for periodontal integration is disclosed. Furthermore a customized dental prosthesis for osseointegration is disclosed having a first manufactured portion shaped to substantially conform to the three-dimensional surface of a root of a tooth to be replaced and a second manufactured portion shaped to substantially conform to the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080090208 - Customized dental prosthesis for periodontal- or osseointegration, and related systems and methods: A customized dental prosthesis for periodontal or osseointegration is disclosed having a manufactured implant portion shaped to substantially conform to the three-dimensional surface of a root of a tooth to be replaced. Furthermore a CAD/CAM based method of and a system for manufacturing a customized dental prosthesis replacing an extracted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080090209 - Dental implants using shape memory alloys: A dental implant made from a memory shape-retaining alloy provided in an uniform shape that is converted to a set (remembered) shape after placement in a prepared cavity and appropriately heated, thereby to be positively retained in the cavity.... Agent: Donald D. Mon

20080090210 - Arrangement for forming a hole in a jaw bone, and implant for application in said hole: An arrangement for application or anchoring of an implant (17) in a jaw bone (8) by means of a hole formed in the jaw bone comprises a manually driven or machine-driven part which cooperates with the hole wall and which is designed to work with a hole wall cleaning function... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080090211 - Implant for dental prosthesis, and method and system for producing the implant: An implant is provided that can be implanted into a hole of a jaw bone. The implant comprises inner and outer parts. The inner part is sized and configured to be inserted into the hole of the jaw bone. The outer part is sized and configured to support a dental... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080085486 - Malleable orthodontic bracket: An orthodontic device includes a bracket that has a bracket pad with a first side that is intermittently etched. The bracket pad is malleable so that it can be configured to conform to a tooth. The bracket pad is composed of a single layer of material and is configured to... Agent: Jones Day

20080085488 - Universal one-step drill: A universal one-step drill for heat sensitive material, particularly for bone surgery, comprising a pyramidal shaped, sharply pointed first stage, which tapers to a first diameter and one or more subsequent stages, each of which tapers out to a larger diameter.... Agent: Sargon Lazarof Sargon Enterprises, Inc.

20080085489 - Surgical guides and methods for positioning artificial teeth and dental implants: A method is set forth for making a computer model of patient's jaws on the basis of digital information. Digital data about the jaws, teeth, soft tissues and artificial teeth is joined in computer space to create aesthetic and functional plans for the removal of teeth, shaping of supporting bone... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080085487 - Dental data mining: Systems and methods are disclosed providing a database comprising a compendium of at least one of patient treatment history; orthodontic therapies, orthodontic information and diagnostics; employing a data mining technique for interrogating said database for generating an output data stream, the output data stream correlating a patient malocclusion with an... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080085490 - Truncated cone-shaped dental drill burr, measurement gauge and gingival cord applicator for dental crown preparation: A truncated conical dental drill bit is disclosed to facilitate the preparation of a tooth prior to installation of a dental crown. The drill bit includes a stem connected to an upper disc which, in turn, is connected to a downwardly extending sidewall having a conical configuration. The sidewall terminates... Agent: Miller, Matthias & Hull

20080085491 - Dental implant system: The present invention relates to a dental implant. The dental implant comprises: a central portion, at least one proximal plate-like projection, at least one fin and at least one protrusion. The central portion has a first section and a second section. The protrusion is disposed on a clearance side of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080085492 - Implant with internal multi-lobed interlock: A dental implant for supporting a dental prosthesis comprises a body portion and a top surface. The implant further comprises an internal cavity with an opening located at the top surface. The internal cavity comprises an interlock chamber having a depth measured from the top surface equal to a first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080085493 - Methods for making provisional and long-term dental crowns and bridges: The invention provides methods of making provisional and long-term dental restorations, particularly dental veneers, crowns and bridges. In one embodiment, the restoration can be fabricated indirectly by a dental laboratory. In another version, a dental practitioner can make the restoration chairside for a patient in a dental office. A polymerizable... Agent: Dentsply International Inc

20080085494 - Dental compositions containing oxirane monomers: Epoxy-functional ether monomers (i.e., oxirane monomers) for use in oxirane-based dental compositions.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080081309 - Orthodontic bracket with brazed archwire slot liner: An orthodontic article and method of making the orthodontic article, where the orthodontic article includes a fine-grain ceramic bracket and a metal liner secured in an archwire slot of the bracket with a brazing alloy comprising silver, copper, and at least about 1.5% by weight titanium.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080081311 - Holder of abutment tooth model: For accurately setting an abutment tooth model on a measuring apparatus and easily adjusting a position of the model, a holder includes a pillar shaped abutment tooth model holding base (1), which has a concave part at the upper side, and a holding hole provided at a center of an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080081310 - Reduced-friction buccal tube and method of use: An orthodontic appliance includes features for reducing friction between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire to be placed within the archwire slot. Other embodiments include a rounded exterior occlusal surface. Embodiments further comprise one or more receptacles for receiving an installation tool.... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080081312 - Patient positioning device of a panoramic dental x-ray apparatus: A positioning device for positioning a patient when being radiographed with a panorama X-ray machine 10, comprising a retainer 18 disposed in a fixed direction relative to the X-ray apparatus 10 and a variable positioner connected thereto, for example a bite block 19 or a support, has a longitudinal guide... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080081313 - Dental filing tool: A dental filing tool and method for use includes providing a unitary injection-molded handle with integral finger pads, indicia markings, and an abrasive filing strip embedded into the handle vertical arms; inserting the tool between teeth to cut and file restorations; and, disposing after use. A method for making a... Agent: Rylander & Associates PC

20080081314 - Dental appliance and method for positioning and holding inlays and onlays during bonding and cementation process: A dental appliance that includes a handle and a head with opposite first and second ends. The first end of the head is attached to the handle. A gripper has a first end attached to the second end of the head. The gripper includes a flexible material contoured such that... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080081315 - Dr. seoung ho lee's augmentation plates for stabilizing dental implant fixtures: This invention is a titanium plate developed for the temporary support of dental implant fixtures during alveolar ridge bone regeneration. When the alveolar ridge bone where the implant fixture is to be applied is very weak or damaged, this invention enables implant operation on the weak bone by temporarily supporting... Agent: Ms. Connie K. Kim

20080081316 - Fixture: A fixture is disclosed, in which a small thread part is formed at an upper side of a fixture, and a large thread part is formed at a lower side of the same, with the leads of the small and large thread parts being same, and with the small thread... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080081317 - Method and material to form a cast from gypsum: A method is disclosed for forming an accurate stone cast from an impression of a body region, used for the purpose of prosthetic fabrication, such as dental crowns and artificial eyes and hearing aids. The initial step with this unique method is to first acquire a suitable amount of dental... Agent: Dennis J. White

20080081318 - Prelayered dental appliances, kits, and methods for providing consistent shade matching: Prefabricated non-custom dental appliances, kits, and methods that allow a practitioner to select one or more prefabricated non-custom appliances having desired color shading characteristics from a kit and bond the selected appliances to a person's teeth. Each appliance includes a form layer including a surface contoured so as to approximate... Agent: Workman Nydegger