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US 10,420,627 B2Granted
Dental tool for shaping dental restoration
AssigneeKing Abdulaziz University
InventorFahad Ibrahim Fatiny
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Abstract
A dental instrument for shaping a dental restoration. The instrument includes an end with at least one undulating edge which eases the placement, manipulation, and sculpting of dental restoration.
Claims18
A dental tool, comprising:
- a first working end member, a second working end member, and a handle therebetween, wherein each working end member is connected to the handle and comprises:
- a curved section connected to the handle and disposed at a first acute angle to a longitudinal axis of the handle;
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- an end in a shape of a cruciform connected to the curved section, wherein the end comprises four undulating edges connected smoothly with each other;
- wherein a first diagonal connecting a first corner of the cruciform to the curved section is disposed at a second acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the handle, and both working end members and the handle form a unitary construction, and
- wherein a length of the first diagonal is in a range of 1-4 times a length of a second diagonal which connects a second corner of the cruciform to a third corner of the cruciform,
- wherein the first corner, the second corner, and the third corner are round,
- wherein a top face and a bottom face of each end is flat.
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