Device for mixing a dental ceramics composition

A device for preparing a dental ceramics composition from a liquid and a granular ceramics substance, comprising:

• means including at least one side wall and a bottom wall for forming a housing having a receptacle therein adapted to contain the liquid;
• means opposite the bottom wall for forming a lid for selectively opening and closing the receptacle;
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• means for forming a substantially flat surface for supporting the granular ceramics substance intermediate the bottom wall and the lid, said surface being perforated by a plurality of open substantially vertical channels closely spaced in substantially parallel relationship for providing capillary flow of the liquid from the receptacle to the granular substance thereby to form the dental ceramics composition.