Disposable container for cleaning and lubricating a dental handpiece

An apparatus for use with a dental handpiece, said dental handpiece having a handle portion and a head portion mounted to said handle portion, said head portion having means therein for mounting a turbine, a turbine mounted in said head portion and fluid conduit means in the handle portion communicating with the head portion for carrying fluid for driving said turbine, said apparatus being used when said dental handpiece is being cleaned or lubricated by respective cleaning or lubricating fluid being circulated through the fluid conduit of the handle portion to the head portion and turbine, said apparatus comprising:

• a disposable container sized for surroundingly enclosing a head portion of a dental handpiece, said container having an aperture sized to receive a head portion of a dental handpiece therethrough for entry of the head portion into the container so as to be substantially surrounded by the container while leaving part of a handle portion of the dental handpiece extending outwardly of the container so that when cleaning or lubricating fluid is circulated through the fluid conduit of the handle portion to the head portion and turbine, that part of said fluid which is expelled from the head portion, together with any other materials carried by the fluid, are received and confined along an inner surface of the container.