Dental post and pin repair
OwnerFred A. Richedainventor
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Abstract
A post and pin placed in a radicular or root portion of a tooth as well as in the dentin of fractured or badly broken-down vital teeth to facilitate the distribution of stress throughout the roots and provide structure to support repair parts to restore teeth to a natural shape. Dentistically repair is a method for creating a reservoir space in a tooth to receive a composite resin as well as a stainless steel wire and sleeve components to attach and support a tooth repair part for restorations of a fracture or broken tooth chewing surface. The repair components provide a utilitarian structure of a unique nature.
Claims5
A method for effecting the repair of a fractured tooth wherein a fractured part of the tooth has separated from the tooth itself, the method comprising:
- forming a reservoir space at the location of the tooth fracture at the location of repair,
- forming a reservoir space in the tooth repair;
- introducing a composite resin into the reservoir space of the tooth;
- locating a sleeve in the reservoir space to be wetted by the composite resin;
- setting the fractured part of the tooth into position on the sleeve to match the natural tooth;
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- curing the composite resin to secure the tooth repair fractured part to the sleeve and to hold the tooth repair onto the natural tooth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.