Dental adaptor device
AssigneeAd Dent Inc.
InventorsRichard Trushkowsky, Joshua Friedman
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Abstract
A dental device for assisting in the filling and curing of a dental restoration with light activated materials having a truncated conical shape with a disposable insert member at its apex. The conical holding device has an opening at the base to accommodate a light guide and an opening at the apex to accommodate a disposable insert member. Each insert member has a shape tapered at one end thereof and an indicator means to monitor the depth of the restoration to the pulpal floor and to provide alignment of the preparation relative to the marginal ridge of the adjacent tooth.
Claims13
A dental device for assisting in the filling and curing of a dental restoration with light activated restorative material comprising:
- an adapter and a removable insert member having an upper end section and a lower end section with the lower end section having a contoured geometry with a concave surface on one side thereof and a convex surface on the side opposite thereof for establishing proximal contact with a dental preparation so that the anatomical shape of a proximal surface of a tooth being filled with said light activated restorative material can be duplicated, said adapter having a base section at one end thereof adapted to be mounted to the distal end of a light guide and having an apex at the opposite end thereof adapted to receive the upper end section of said insert member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.