Oral hygiene device

Details Oral hygiene device Oral hygiene device

1998-06-01

1999-11-09

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Optic, otic or oral scrapper or abrader

15111, A61B 1724

Patent

active

059805412

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an oral hygiene device, comprising an elongate handle having a bristle end and a scraper end, the bristle end having a plurality of bristles disposed thereon adapted to brushing the user's teeth as in a conventional toothbrush. An arcuate blade member is provided having a concave surface and an opposing convex surface and at least one blade edge disposed at a juncture of the convex and concave surfaces and wherein the curvature of the arcuate blade member is sized, shaped and adapted to scraping the upper surfaces of the human tongue. the arcuate blade member is disposed and attached by support member to the scraper end of the elongate handle such that the concave surface faces the scraper end of the elongate handle. The tongue scraper of the device is used by placing a blade edge upon the convex top surface portion of the human tongue back near the root of the tongue while holding the elongate handle at a downward angle so as to effectively engage the blade edge with the top surface of the tongue and then dragging the blade edge forward and across the convex portion of the tongue, the intermediate portion of the tongue, and the concave forward portion of the tongue, while simultaneously adjusting the angle of the elongate handle upward so as to maintain effective engagement of the blade edge with the top surface of the tongue.

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