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US 5,848,600 AGranted
Dental floss article
AssigneeGore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
InventorsJohn Edward Bacino, John W. Dolan, Thomas Michael Gray
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Abstract
A dental floss article is provided comprising a fiber having a predetermined length and defined by at least one substantially rigid portion and at least one flexible portion.
Claims16
A method of producing a dental floss article comprising the steps of:
- providing a porous polymeric fiber having a length;
- filling a monomer within the fiber at a location along the length of said fiber;
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- polymerizing the monomer in place within said porous polymeric fiber, thereby rendering said filled location substantially more rigid than any unfilled regions.
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