A tooth repair system
AssigneeDentistry Elevated LLC
InventorJeremy Ellis
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Abstract
This invention relates to a tooth repair system including a method of: drilling an aperture in, e.g., a broken anterior tooth to a predetermined depth; providing a fiber optic—preferably of a diameter of between 0.3 and 1 millimeter and elastic modulus of between 22 GPa and 83 GPa—with a length longer than the predetermined depth; placing and adhering the fiber optic within the first aperture so that a portion of the fiber optic is exposed beyond the broken tooth surface; and restoring the broken tooth surface around the exposed fiber optic so that the fiber optic anchors a restored tooth portion to the broken tooth surface. The system also provides a tooth repair pin with the above characteristics, being acid-etched and silane coated with a carrier sleeve.
Claims19
A method of repairing a tooth comprising the steps of:
- drilling a first aperture in a broken tooth surface along a longitudinal axis of a tooth to a predetermined depth;
- providing a fiber optic with a length longer than the predetermined depth;
- placing and adhering the fiber optic within the first aperture so that a portion of the fiber optic is exposed beyond the broken tooth surface;
- and
- restoring the broken tooth surface around the exposed fiber optic so that the fiber optic anchors restored tooth portions to the broken tooth surface.
A method of repairing an incisal tip of an anterior tooth comprising the steps of:
- drilling a first aperture in a broken tooth surface of an anterior tooth along a longitudinal axis of the tooth to a predetermined depth;
- providing a fiber optic with a length longer than the predetermined depth, the fiber optic being only a single fiber optic strand and having a diameter of between 0.3 and 1 millimeter;
- placing and adhering the fiber optic within the first aperture so that a portion of the fiber optic is exposed beyond the broken tooth surface;
- and
- restoring the broken tooth surface around the exposed fiber optic so that the fiber optic anchors restored tooth portions to the broken tooth surface.
A tooth repair pin comprising:
- a fiber optic having a diameter of between 0.3 and 1 millimeter, the fiber optic being pre-acid etched.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.