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US 10,327,865 B2Granted
Composite restoration roller
AssigneeKing Abdulaziz University
InventorsFahad Ibrahim Fatiny, Turki Y. Alhazzazi, Helal M. Sonbul
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Abstract
A dental instrument with an interchangeable frustum roller with a fixed apical tip for unobstructed viewing a working surface on a tooth and for rapidly, precisely and homogenously distributing a restorative material on the surface of a tooth while avoiding adherence of an applied restorative material to the dental instrument.
Claims19
A dental instrument, comprising
- a shaft and at least one a working end, said working end comprising an arm attached to, and projecting away from the shaft around which arm is a longitudinally mounted conical frustum roller that has a narrow section projecting away from the shaft and that is capped by a non-rotating rounded apical tip which forms an integral or detachable part of the arm;
- and wherein the frustum roller is mounted on the arm so that it can rotate around the longitudinal axis of the arm,
- wherein the arm is mounted on a non-rotatable flange, is fixed and does not rotate, and the non-rotatable flange having a diameter greater than a distal end of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.