Dental implant floss construction
OwnerKenneth E. Clarkinventor
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Abstract
An improved dental floss construction (10) for removing plaque and food particles from the periphery of the metal support posts (101) for a dental implant (100) wherein the construction (10) includes a pair of deformable end units (11) wherein each end unit (11) has a very thin strand of wire (20) encapsulated in a very thin layer of plastic; wherein, each strand of wire (20) has an inboard end (21). In addition, the construction (10) further includes an intermediate flossing unit (12) having a length of flossing material (30) such as plastic yarn whose opposite ends are supported by the inboard ends (24) of each strand of wire (20).
Claims12
An improved dental floss construction for removing plaque and food particles from the periphery of metal support posts for dental implants wherein the dental floss construction comprises
- a pair of deformable end units wherein each end unit includes a very thin malleable strand of wire surrounded by a very thin layer of flexible plastic;
- and,
- an intermediate flossing unit operatively connected to one end of each end unit and including a length of flexible flossing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.