Dental treatment system
AssigneeSonendo, Inc.
InventorsBjarne Bergheim, Mehrzad Khakpour, Jennifer Chen, Alexis Dechelette
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Abstract
A dental treatment system can include a console, a tooth coupler, and an interface member that provides at least one of fluidic, electrical, mechanical, and data communication between the tooth coupler and the console. The tooth coupler (which may comprise a handpiece or a treatment cap) can act as a working end of the system to administer a suitable treatment procedure, such as a cleaning procedure, an obturation procedure, a restoration procedure, etc. The tooth coupler can removably engage the interface member such that the clinician can easily engage and disengage the tooth coupler and interface member.
Claims17
A dental treatment system comprising:
- a fluid supply;
- a pressurizing pump to pressurize one or more fluids supplied to the pressurizing pump from the fluid supply;
- a fluid pathway between the pressurizing pump and an interface configured to provide fluidic communication with a dental treatment apparatus configured to perform a dental treatment procedure, the fluid pathway including a fluid supply line to deliver the pressurized one or more fluids to the dental treatment apparatus and a suction line to convey waste fluid away from the dental treatment apparatus;
- an evacuation system comprising:
- a waste reservoir;
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- a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the fluid supply and the fluid pathway, the vacuum pump configured to apply a negative pressure to draw fluid from the fluid supply and waste fluid from the dental treatment apparatus to the waste reservoir.
A dental treatment system comprising:
- a plurality of fluid reservoirs for holding a plurality of fluids to be supplied to a dental treatment apparatus configured to treat an oral condition;
- a mixing system configured to mix the plurality of fluids to form a fluid mixture;
- a degassing system configured to remove dissolved gases from the plurality of fluids supplied by the plurality of fluid reservoirs or from the fluid mixture;
- a pump to pressurize the mixed fluid, wherein the mixing system and degassing system are positioned along a flow path between the plurality of fluid reservoirs and the pump;
- a fluid pathway configured to connect the pump and the dental treatment apparatus;
- and
- an evacuation system comprising:
- a waste reservoir;
- and
- a vacuum pump in fluid communication with the fluid pathway and at least one of the degassing system and the plurality of fluid reservoirs, the vacuum pump configured to apply a negative pressure to draw waste fluid from the dental treatment apparatus to the waste reservoir.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.