Teeth treatment device
OwnerScott Jacobsinventor
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Abstract
A tray device for use in treating a patient's teeth using a pattern formed from dental wax having a length and height sufficient to cover the patient's teeth. The pattern is packaged in a packaging platform for forming a tray shaped device by pressing the pattern on the platform to thereby form a tray sized to cover the selected teeth on the teeth. The package holding the platform may also have a hollow region sized and positioned to cover the pattern on the platform. The dental wax is sufficiently deformable at room temperature to permit a patient to conform the tray to the teeth.
Claims20
A tray device for use in treating at least some of a patient's teeth, comprising:
- a pattern formed from dental wax, said pattern having a length sufficient to cover the selected patient's teeth and a height twice the nominal length of the selected patient's teeth on said teeth;
- and
- a packaging platform for forming a tray shaped device by pressing said pattern on said platform to thereby form a tray sized to cover said selected teeth on said teeth, said dental wax being sufficiently deformable at room temperature to permit a patient to conform said tray to said teeth on said one jaw.
The device of claim 9, wherein said packaging platform further includes at least one hollow element positioned on a package front, said package front and package back being sized to cover said wax pattern by mating said package front and package back to each other.
A method of making a tray device for use in treating at least some of a patient's teeth, comprising the steps of:
- forming a pattern from dental wax, said pattern having a length sufficient to cover the selected patient's teeth and a height twice the nominal length of the selected patient's teeth on said teeth;
- and
- forming a tray shaped device by pressing said pattern on a packaging platform to thereby form a tray sized to cover said selected teeth on said teeth, said dental wax being sufficiently deformable at room temperature to permit a patient to conform said tray to said teeth on said one jaw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.