Dentistry inventions 10/09

20090246724 - Restorative dental appliances: A dental appliance is described herein. In one embodiment, the dental appliance comprises a concave trough conforming to a plurality of teeth when placed over the plurality of teeth. The concave trough is configured to transition from a first shape to a second shape if a deforming force is applied.... Agent: Align Technology C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20090246725 - Method and kit including stop elements for correcting dental malocclusions with pre-formed nitinol arches: The invention relates to a method and a kit for correcting dental malocclusions. The inventive kit consists of at least one pre-formed arch for nitinol orthodontics and at least two perforated silver spherules which when introduced into the arch and deformed remain fixed to the arch, serving as a stop... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090246726 - Reconstruction of non-visible part of tooth: A computer-implemented method for modeling a complete tooth of a patient to facilitate dental and/or orthodontic treatment. The method includes generating a first set of digital data representing a clinical crown; generating a second set of digital data representing a plurality of digital tooth models of a particular tooth type... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , Pllc

20090246727 - Phantom: The referencing or calibration phantom (1) has at least a partial surface with at least two different colors or two shades of the same color The surface is at least partially opaque.... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090246728 - 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

20090246729 - Integrated modular dental measuring apparatus and method for dentures: An integrated modular dental measuring apparatus and method of use for producing edentulous dentures. The apparatus is a set of components including a lower dental tray having a removable modular contact plate with an upwardly extending shoulder surrounding a tapered opening, a ball nut retained in the tapered opening, and... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20090246730 - Dental handpiece: Two nozzles 37 in pair are provided along an inner circumferential surface 21a of a concavity 21, air is blown out in a space from a blowout hole 37a provided at a tip end portion of the nozzle from a side where the nozzle 37 is provided aiming at an... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090246731 - 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

20090246732 - Dental tool: A hand held dental tool for removing dental prostheses and dental appliances from a user's mouth comprises a handle that facilitates a sturdy grip and an engagement head affixed an end of the handle for engaging the prosthesis of appliance. The engagement head has dual fingers extending oppositely away from... Agent: Malloy & Malloy

20090246733 - Anchor for securing a tooth replacement: The anchor for securing a tooth replacement comprises an anchoring part (1) which can be secured to an implant or jaw and which has a recess (2), and a pivoting part (10) to which the tooth replacement can be secured and which contains a pin (11). The pivoting part is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090246734 - Multi-position abutment with angular ball attachment for dental implants: The present invention relates to an abutment for securing a dental prosthesis to a dental implant. The multi-member abutment corrects for angular misalignment between the dental prosthesis and implant by way of thirty or greater discrete orientations about a central vertical axis and, an external ball that protrudes from the... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20090246735 - Process for producing coloured sintered ceramic bodies, in particular for dental applications: Coloring materials are added in dry powder form to the material of the base composition to form a colored ceramic body.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090246736 - Method, computer, machine-readable medium, computer program and system, concerning the manufacture of dental prostheses: The invention relates to the examination of a dental prosthesis, wherein the dental prosthesis is examined with finite element methods. Furthermore, the invention relates to the automated manufacture of a dental prosthesis, wherein the shape of a remaining tooth area is directly determined on the basis of the remaining tooth... Agent: Ip Strategies

20090246737 - Teeth treatment devise: The present invention is directed to a method of making a teeth treatment device, the method including the steps of passing a substrate through a container having melted wax therein to form a wax saturated substrate; applying a quantity of bleaching solution to one side of the wax saturated substrate;... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090246738 - Fiber reinforced composite post: A fiber-reinforced composite post having an inner core section or rod fabricated of fibers impregnated in a resin matrix and an out sheath of fibers arranged in the form of a mesh. The sheath comprises an interior and an exterior surface, whereby the interior surface is attached to and embedded... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20090246739 - Furnace for the thermal treatment of a dental firing object: A furnace for the thermal treatment of at least one dental firing object, comprising a housing, a firing chamber, a firing chamber base, a heating device, and at least one optical temperature detection element which can be used to detect a temperature in the firing chamber and is intended to... Agent: Jonh C. Thompson