Clinical appliance and handle

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1994-03-25

1996-01-23

Lucchesi, Nicholas D.

Dentistry

Apparatus

Having gauge or guide

33513, A61C 1904, A61C 300

Patent

active

054861098

ABSTRACT:
A clinical appliance (10) which is useful for taking samples from a tissue or a tissue associated material is disclosed. The appliance (10) has a head (13), and a handle (11) and a pressure sensitive element which comprises the head (13) and the handle (11) attached by a resiliently deformable member (12), and an instrument (140 retained in the head. Marks (21) are provided respectively on the head (13) and the handle (11) to indicate that when the marks are aligned a selected force is being exerted on the instrument (14). A portion of the instrument (14) consists of a needle member for probing periodontal pockets.

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