Tweezers and a method of conducting root canal therapy
OwnerKehn YAPPinventor
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Abstract
Tweezers for use in conducting root canal therapy and methods of conducting root canal therapy using the tweezers are described, the tweezers including: a pair of elongate arms; the arms are moveable between a closed condition and an open condition and are biased towards the closed condition; a grasping formation is provided at the end of each of the arms; the grasping formations have substantially part cylindrical faces to grasp opposite sides of a substantially cylindrical item; and wherein the axes of the cylindrical faces are offset from a direction perpendicular to the length of the arms.
Claims7
1-9. (canceled)
Tweezers for use in conducting root canal therapy including:
- a pair of elongate arms;
- the arms are moveable between a closed condition and an open condition and are biased towards the closed condition;
- a grasping formation is provided at an end of each of the arms;
- the grasping formations have substantially part cylindrical faces to grasp opposite sides of the handle of an endodontic file with bidirectional use on both sides of the tweezers;
- wherein axes of the cylindrical faces are offset from a direction perpendicular to the length of the arms;
- and wherein the axes of the cylindrical faces are offset by between 10 and 30 degrees.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.