Dentistry – Apparatus – Having intra-oral dispensing means
Patent
1995-06-26
1997-07-01
Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
Dentistry
Apparatus
Having intra-oral dispensing means
A61C 110, A61C 112, A61C 1702
Patent
active
056429940
ABSTRACT:
A fluid storage and dispensing container for cleaning teeth, which includes a modified prophy angle headpiece that attaches to existing hand-held prophy cup dental instrument handpieces. The headpiece has an integrated passage through the headpiece by which a fluid is dispensed from the fluid container to the rotatable prophy cup. The headpiece has a lumen through the angle that won't tear or close under flow pressure. The headpiece has a shelf on a top surface for guiding placement of the fluid container, and a snap-fit retaining clip at a base of the headpiece for securing a plurality of different fluid containers. A preferred embodiment of a fluid storage container is a flexible tube that is depressed by a finger or thumb to dispense a fluid such as prophylactic paste or a polishing lubricant to the prophy cup.
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Chipian E. Terry
Simon Eric
Theodore Alexander
Lucchesi Nicholas D.
Propheze, Inc.
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