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US 11,877,903 B2Granted
Dental object with an adhesive region
AssigneeIvoclar Vivadent AG
InventorsMarkus Rampf, Raimund Tichy, Alexander Grosse-Honebrink, Jonas Reinhardt
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a dental object (100), having an adhering region (103) for attaching the dental object (100) to a tooth, teeth (105) or the gums, including an array (101) of suction cups (107-1, . . . , 107-n).
Claims14
A dental object (100), comprising:
- an adhering region (103) for attaching the dental object (100) to a tooth, teeth (105) or a gum, comprising an array (101) of suction cups (107-1, . . . , 107-n),
- wherein the suction cups (107-1, . . . , 107-n) comprise a solid spherical central protrusion (109) having a first diameter, and wherein the solid spherical central protrusion (109) is connected within the suction cup by a portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter.
A method of adhering a dental object (100), comprising pressing an adhering region (103) of the dental object (100) comprising an array (101) of suction cups (107-1, . . . , 107-n) onto a tooth (105), teeth or gums,
- wherein the suction cups (107-1, . . . , 107-n) comprise a solid spherical central protrusion (109) having a first diameter, and
- wherein the solid spherical central protrusion (109) is connected within the suction cup by a portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.