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4915626 Dental inspection and display apparatus  
A dental inspection apparatus to view an image of the interior of the mouth of a patient and contemporaneously display a video image of the interior of the mouth.
4888489 Hand-held device for curing a dental restorative material  
When a hand-held visible-light curing unit is used in air to cure dental restorative material, a thin layer of soft, uncured surface material ordinarily remains and is removed by grinding. In the...
4872837 Surgical or dental instrument and cannulae for aspirating, cleaning, drying and illuminating  
This invention relates to a surgical or dental instrument capable of illuminating, washing with liquid, washing with sprayed liquid, drying with air, and aspirating. The instrument incorporates a...
4858001 Modular endoscopic apparatus with image rotation  
A hand held endoscopic apparatus consists of a body, a camera and a removable and interchangeable objective element capable of presenting an image of an object to the camera. The objective element...
4840563 Dental equipment having means for delivering RF and LF energy to a dental handpiece  
Dental equipment having means for delivering RF and LF energy to a dental handpiece. Given a supply of RF energy, the dental equipment transmits a further energy that is significantly...
4837732 Method and apparatus for the three-dimensional registration and display of prepared teeth  
The method provides a means for a dentist to record the shape in situ of teeth prepared for repair. During a search mode, a high resolution grey scale image is presented on a monitor. The scan head...
4826431 Medical laser handpiece  
A medical laser handpiece comprising a grip body, a semiconductor laser generator disposed in the grip body and an irradiation nozzle which is detachably cross-connected to the head of the grip...
4807599 Illuminating tongue depressor  
An illuminating tongue depressor includes a handle having a battery-operated light source and a depressor blade selectively coupled with or uncoupled from the handle for discard and replacement,...
4802851 Dental appliance  
A combination jaw rest and ejector having a generally hollow wedge-shaped body with upper and lower channels in which a patient's teeth rest and which holds open the patient's mouth. The...
4790751 Dental viewing apparatus and method  
To permit more effective viewing during dental surgery of diagnosis, a retractor or probe assembly includes: (1) a cylindrical stainless steel handle about 14 centimeters long and 7 millimeters in...
4757381 Means and structure for prevention of cross contamination during use of dental camera  
A sheath is provided which prevents the dental camera itself from coming into contact with the patient, while allowing the dental camera to function properly. Such sheaths are dispensed on a...
4753595 Dental handpiece  
A dental handpiece, which has a gripping part connectable to a supply hose and a head part with a head housing which is removably held at the free end of the gripping part, characterized by the...
4732563 Power unit, in particular for dental instruments, and tool unit for use in connection with such power unit  
A power unit, in particular for dental instruments, comprises a housing (2) which, at one end, has means for supplying electric current and at least one fluid, and, at the other end, has a...
4725231 Dental-surgeon handpiece with battery lighting  
This equipment for dental surgeons comprises a hand-piece incorporating at least one bulb for illuminating the treatment area and an endpiece housing a battery. This endpiece comprises on its front...
4721416 Submersible offshore drilling and production platform jacket  
A submersible offshore jacket assembly is provided having a plurality of elongated pilings with a first diameter. A plurality of spaced, longitudinally aligned sleeves of a diameter greater than...
4711630 Dental handpiece assembly  
A dental handpiece assembly comprising a handgrip and a detachable headpiece. The front end of the handgrip includes an arm that extends forward and below the headpiece. The headpiece carries a...
4680011 Dental contra-angle handpiece with means for illuminating the treatment area  
A dental handpiece comprises a front part with a head and a handle part. The head is provided with at least one miniature bulb mounted therein for illuminating the treatment area and the dental...
4673351 Contra-angle for dental handpiece  
The contra-angle is provided with means for illuminating the site of treatment. The light source is incorporated inside the body of the contra-angle, and in front of this light source is inserted...
4669982 Dental handpiece arrangement with an illumination device  
A dental handpiece arrangement having a drive motor mounted in a motor cartridge which is connectible to a supply hose supplying various fluids and electrical power, a coupling member being mounted...
4655709 Coupling device for dental handpieces  
A coupling device which enables coupling different types of dental handpieces or devices to a supply hose characterized by a pin-shaped coupling member which has a electrical lamp at a free end for...
4648838 Dental handpiece  
A dental handpiece, having provided at one end thereof at least one outlet opening for the discharge of a streaming medium. The outlet opening has a light-emitting element associated therewith. As...
4642738 Illuminated dental drill  
A pneumatic dental drill handpiece has a light-bulb (40) fastened in its head, so directed that it illuminates the tip of the burr (32). An electric cell (2) is positioned in a semicylindrical...
4634376 Tartar-removing handpiece  
A tartar-removing or scaling handpiece, which is constituted of an elongated gripping sleeve, having arranged at one end thereof a tartar-removing or scaling implement which includes a bent...
4629425 Dental mirror  
Mirror apparatus for examining body cavities such as the mouth including a handle having inner and outer end portions, valve apparatus connected to the outer end portion of the handle and a syringe...
4626210 Dental handpiece  
The invention is directed to a dental handpiece 1 comprising a grip sleeve 2 having at least one cordlike light guide 18 in the area of the handpiece head part 4 which passes out of the latter in...
4619612 Dental spray handpiece  
The present invention is directed to a dental spray handpiece for agents such as air and water having a nozzle member with a discharge orifice at one end and a connecting element at the other end...
4614498 Swivel for an illuminated dental handpiece  
A swivel connector for an illuminated dental handpiece, such as a high speed or low speed handpiece or scaler, etc., permits easy rotatability and disconnectability and has good light transmission,...
4611992 Spray guard for dental tool  
An anti-splash device for attachment to a dental tool that delivers an aqueous fluid from a nozzle, which comprises an inverted U-shaped member having a base and integral, opposed legs depending...
4600384 Swivel coupling for illuminated dental handpiece  
A swivel coupling for connection between a dental handpiece and a supply hose. The coupling includes a lamp in its handpiece connector portion, and an annular commutator in its hose connector...
4592344 Combination illuminator and lip and cheek expander  
An illuminating lip and cheek expanding device comprising a lip expander including a pair of lip engaging members to engage opposite corners of the mouth. At least one of the lip engaging members...
4591437 Apparatus for separating solid particles from a liquid  
Apparatus for separating solid particles, such as amalgam waste from the waste water from dentists' surgical units, employs at least one filter body through which the liquid flows and which...
4578034 Dental handpiece having an optical fiberscope  
A dental handpiece has a handle portion including a powerhead assembly integrally supported on a front end of the handle portion and a base cylindrical member located in a cylindrical hollow...
4578033 Tartar-removing dental handpiece  
A tartar-removing dental handpiece, constituted of an elongated gripping sleeve having a vibration generator arranged therein which is connected with a vibratable tartar-removing instrument located...
4568284 Dental handpiece  
A dental handpiece including motor portion and swivelable attachment portion. The motor portion includes an annular electrical commutator on its end facing the attachment. The attachment includes a...
4561845 Illumination for dental drills  
A dental hand-piece having a fluid powered tool and a self-contained light source for illuminating the region of the work tip of the tool. The sleeve portion of the hand piece defines a...
4541802 Swivel hose coupling for dental handpiece or the like  
A swivel coupling for connecting a hose containing a drive air conduit, a secondary air conduit, a water conduit and an optical fiber conduit to a handpiece, such as a dental handpiece, having like...
4533322 Dental instrument light  
A device for supplying luminous energy to a dental instrument to illuminate the area of treatment on a tooth being treated. The luminous energy is applied from a bulb housed in the device through...
4518355 Dental handpiece  
There is disclosed a dental handpiece which comprises means at one end of the handpiece to mount a dental implement, a drive train arranged within the handpiece and extending to the implement-end...
4501555 Periodontal probes  
A periodontal probe (3) comprises an elongate shaft terminating in a measuring tine (4) having a plurality of spaced transverse grooves (5) formed therein, the probe being formed of a material...
4498868 Dental hand piece  
An improved dental hand piece which has a driven tool which either is rotated or reciprocated and includes an illumination arrangement for projecting light from an exit end at a tip of the tool and...
4484893 Air turbine handpiece for dental scaling and other applications  
An oscillatory handpiece for a tool bit includes a housing having therewith fluid driven turbine rotor having an eccentric connection to an oscillatable rod which is effectively supported only at...
4477252 Fiber optic system for dental handpiece  
A dental handpiece having a mechanism for mounting a bur in one end thereof. A fiber optic system is mounted within the handpiece, and is adapted to direct light adjacent the bur when it is...
4460337 Dental handpiece  
The present invention is directed to a dental handpiece having two parts which are coupled together for relative rotation on the axis of the dental handpiece characterized by an arrangement for...
4458702 Dental flosser  
Powered apparatus for cleaning teeth with dental floss, including arms extending from one end of the apparatus and mounted to rock about an axis transverse to the length of the apparatus, and a...
4450139 Light generating apparatus for curing dental restorative composites  
An apparatus for photochemically curing organic composites used to repair teeth includes a quartz halogen lamp (12) which is activated for a particular length of time by a cycle control circuit...
4403957 Dental handpiece having own electrical light source  
A dental handpiece having a gripping sleeve, a drive aggregate arranged in the handpiece for a dental treatment work tool retained in a head portion, and which includes its own built-in electrical...
4403956 Dental handpiece having an optical fiberscope  
A dental handpiece including a powerhead assembly connected to an outer sleeve handle portion in which is located a sleeve bearing, a rotatable, disconnectable connecting means being provided in...
4398885 Dental handpiece  
There is disclosed a dental handpiece comprising a grip sleeve, a head portion provided at one end of the handpiece, a drive unit provided in the head portion for driving a dental implement, and a...
4385344 Visible light apparatus for curing photo-curable compositions  
There is provided a device for efficient production of light in the low visible range for photo-curing materials, the device being particularly adapted for dental applications. The efficient light...
4375964 Dental instrument having a lamp assembly suspension including vibration and thermal isolation means  
A dental instrument is disclosed having a light source assembly suspension which includes resilient means, such as a coil spring, for supporting the lamp assembly while at the same time reducing...