Patent · US Expired

Tartar-removing handpiece

US4634376A · kind A · utility

58Cited by

3References

15Claims

0Family size

Assignee

KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH · DE

Inventors

Walter Mossle · Bad Waldsee, DE
Eugen Eibofner

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 16, 1985
Grant date	Jan 6, 1987
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 16, 2005

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61C1/088
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

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 operating end, wherein the gripping sleeve incorporates a light source arranged at the end thereof proximate the implement which is oriented towards the region of the tartar-removing implement, and which is located at one side adjacent the tartar-removing implement. The tartar-removing implement possesses a shaft connected with the gripping sleeve, to which there is joined the angled or curvilinearly bent operating end of the implement.

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