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Training and practice apparatus for simulating and practicing clinical dental processes

US5480307A · kind A · utility

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22Claims

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Assignee

KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH · DE

Inventors

Hans-Walter Lang · Leutkirch, DE
Alfred Straka · Isny im Allgäu, DE
Frank Berlinghoff · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 7, 1993
Grant date	Jan 2, 1996
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 7, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG09B23/283
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a training and practice apparatus (1) for simulating and practising clinical dental processes, with a model bust (6) which has a chest part, a neck (16) and a head (7) and is swivel-mounted on a carrier (4), the head (7) is mounted on a head carrier by means of a joint (17) and can thereby be swivelled into different working positions and fixed in the adopted swivel position, the joint (17) is arranged in the neck (16), the neck (16) has an engagement recess (28) opening approximately coaxially at its bottom end and the head carrier is a bearing rod, engaging in the engagement recess, on which the joint (17) is arranged and which is mounted in the chest part.

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