Abstract: A device for use in removing finger nail polish while protecting the user's fingers and nails from deleterious effects of contact with nail polish remover solution. The device includes a pair of elongate imperforate channel-like members which underlie and extend between a pair of user's fingers and which mount therebelow a swab adapted to be impregnated with polish remover and rubbed against the nails having polish to be removed.

Abstract: A capsule for a tooth-restoring material includes a cylinder containing therein the predetermined amount of a powder component of the tooth-restoring material and fitted at its rear end with an extruding plunger; a breakable package held in front of an extreme end opening in the cylinder, the package containing therein an amount of a liquid component of the tooth-restoring material and having its cylinder-facing side formed of a weak material; and a member for holding the package having a nozzle at its outermost end; wherein at a position of the plunger corresponding to the extreme end opening in the cylinder is provided a member capable of breaking through the package of a size small enough not to close up the opening and the nozzle, when the plunger moves to and reaches the package-holding member.

Abstract: An implant for an individual tooth including a metal implant post having a fastening head for receiving the removable denture, the implant post being mounted in a metal spacing element which is threaded in a basic structure that is implantable in the tooth. To hold the spacing element in a fixed, non-twisting and rotatable position, the element is composed of a base portion having a first threaded portion which is received in the basic structure and a second threaded portion of a pitch less than the first portion, which receives a ring element that is threaded thereon and has a shoulder for engaging an upper edge of the basic structure to form a locking arrangement.

Abstract: A portable dental instrument sterilizing container adapted to be connected to a support which flanks a dental chair. The container has a top section, an internal middle section and a bottom section. The bottom section has a projection adapted to be inserted into a well formed in the support. The top section has a plurailty of holes to form dental instrument holding sockets. A portion of the top section is shaped so as to rest a drinking cup thereon. The middle section forms an internal container that is in communication with the sockets. The internal container has a suction port, a drainage port and sized such that the dental instruments within the sockets, project above the top section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dental tool which operates as a reamer, while reducing the danger of removing excessive tooth material when boring out the tooth canal. The dental tool includes a first holder end portion designed to be receiveable in a dental tool holder, such that the dental tool holder can rotate the dental tool; a second reaming end portion having a polygonal cross-section and cutting edges tapering longitudinally endwardly to a minimum effective cutting diameter plane, or a point, from a plane of maximum effective cutting diameter, and optimally also having reverse cutting surfaces tapering longitudinally in the opposite direction to an inner plane of reduced effective cutting diameter; and a shank portion extending between the two end portions. The plurality of reamer cutting edges extend axially, and are designed for reaming out a bore into a tooth canal of a patient upon rotation of the tool.

Abstract: A dental swager for adapting a dental foil coping to a die of the tooth to be restored, comprising a male punch and a female base support in which the die of the tooth to be restored is mounted with the foil coping placed over the die. An insert is located in the male punch for transferring the force applied to the punch to the coping and die. The insert is composed of a solid material having an elastic memory. A shock absorber having a putty-like consistency separates the insert from the male punch.

Abstract: A jaw implant comprising a cylindrical, hollow body, threaded on its inner and outer side, and a threaded member in the body acting on horizontally slidable retention pins. The retention pins, subcortically driven into the spongiosa of the jaw bone, are chamferred in such a manner that the longer sides thereof are directed toward the implant support. The edges on the longer sides, at the internal end of the pins, are chamferred for cooperating with the tapered end of the threaded member.The implant can be reliably secured even in thin jaw bones, in particular of aged patients.

Abstract: A multi-purpose dental applicator including a handle and an interchangeable removable member which can be a yoke supporting a length of dental floss, a toothbrush, a spiral wound wire tooth cleaning brush, a rubber tip gum massager, or a length of abrasive tape. The handle has an elongated shank for gripping purposes and a head piece having a receiving cavity for receiving the shank of the interchangeable removable member. The handle further incorporates threads on the outer surface of the head surrounding the receiving cavity. In the preferred embodiment, the receiving cavity is an opening extending into the body of the head in a generally inverted frustum shaped configuration which then extends into a spherical shaped cavity and thereafter extends into an arcuate section having the circumferential length of approximately twenty degrees to either side of the vertical or longitudinal axis of the head.

Abstract: A hair-piece includes a support member (10) for hair shaped like the calotte of the head and including a basket-like configuration made of rods (12, 13) radiating from a crown area. The adjacent pairs of rods define an intermediate space (14) which each extend continuously and uninterruptedly from the crown area. The outer surfaces of the rods (12, 13) are covered with hair.

Abstract: A protective device is provided for carrying out a permanent wave with a permanent wave product on a hair solely in the vicinity of the root thereof and for protecting from the action of the permanent wave product the part of the hair which is not situated close to the root. This device includes a flexible and liquid-tight sheet (1), a reinforcement zone (2) extending along a first edge of the sheet and an arresting element (3) comprising an absorbent strip or pad along the opposite edge of the sheet. If further comprises a fixing structure, for example a strip carrying hook shaped elements situated on or forming the reinforcement zone (2) for temporarily and removably fixing the protective device to the hair prior to winding the device and the hair on a roller.

Abstract: An article for positioning and maintaining a wig on the head of a wearer having little or no natural hair, which comprises an envelope adapted to be disposed between the wig and the head of the wearer, the envelope having a first side adapted to substantially conform to the underside of the wig and a second side adapted to substantially conform to the head of the wearer, filler material for use within the envelope, and a fastener for attaching the envelope to the underside of the wig.

Abstract: A dental burr holder includes an elongated burr block defining a cylindrical lateral base and a plurality of upwardly extending generally cylindrical bore supports molded in a single unit. The burr supports each define respective bores extending downwardly therein configured to receive a plurality of dental burrs. A generally U-shaped burr cover is formed of a resilient material and defines a pair of inwardly extending faceted bosses at the lower ends of each of the burr cover end pieces. The cylindrical base of the burr block defines corresponding faceted recesses which receive the faceted bosses to provide a detented attachment between the burr block cover and the burr block. The relative position between the burr block cover and the burr block may be varied by detented rotation therebetween.

Abstract: The dental prosthesis is adapted for insertion into a socket formed within the patient's jaw. It comprises an elongated shaft defining a proximal region, a distal region, and a tip. A soft porous pad extends distally from the shaft tip. The distal region is preferably biocompatible, porous, soft, resilient, deformable, tissue-ingrowth promoting, and has a compressive stress per unit of strain which is substantially smaller than that of adjacent bone.

Abstract: An arrangement for applying a foam-type hair care medium, the arrangement having an element with a face having a central region and a plurality of projections extending from the face and spaced apart from each other, and a tubular body portion having at least one opening arranged substantially in the central region of the face of the element. The tubular body guides a foam-type hair care medium. The element with projections may be in the form of a brush with bristles or a comb with teeth. A foam dispenser formed as one piece on a disc member surrounded by a ring member may be added when mounted on an aerosol container containing the foam-type hair care medium to further guide the medium.

Abstract: A hair curler roller having a flexible exterior outer sleeve and a rigid center core, and a strap for holding hair ends on the outer sleeve. The strap may be retractable into the interior of the rigid center core when not in use. A compact low profile holder or case is provided for the hair curler rollers.

Abstract: An improved permanent waving process is disclosed. The improved waving process produces hair styles characterized as bouncier, more full bodied with an open/looser pattern of curls. Furthermore, the waving process of the invention provides for improved humectant properties that results in significantly less maintenance than is typically required when conventional waving processes are used. This waving process is a step-by-step procedure involving the addition of a rearranger, a wrapping lotion, and a neutralizer, in combination with intermittent rinsing. The improved quality and settability of the hair is believed to be attributable to a synergistic effect of an improved rearranging composition and an improved wrapping lotion. The rearranging composition comprises a homogenous mixture of a salt of thioglycolic acid and a homopolymer of methyacrylamidopropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (MAPTAC).

Abstract: A method of obtaining hydrocolloid impression material to be used in conjunction with making dental impressions where a quantity of the hydrocolloid impression material in solid form is cut into a mass of small parts. This mass of small parts is then heated within a microwave oven until the mass is liquefied and achieves a homogeneous consistency. The liquid mass is then poured into a tray and tempered and then utilized to make a desired dental impression.

Abstract: A dental irrigation needle includes a hub engagable with a syringe and a cannula having one closed end and another end fitted to the hub, the cannula being formed of a freely bendable material such as annealed stainless steel. One or more nozzle orifices are formed in a lateral wall of the cannula adjacent the closed end so that a fluid from the syringe may be discharged through the nozzle orifices during the irrigation of a reamed root canal. The orifices are mutually axially and circumferentially spaced along the cannula and a marking may be provided on the hub to indicate a direction of each of the nozzle openings.

Abstract: An oral hygiene shower nozzle apparatus is set forth wherein a shower nozzle is provided with an apertured dispersion plate integrally and orthogonally formed to a rear portion of the nozzle with a rotating valve plate rotatably mounted parallel to and adjacent a rear face of the dispersion plate whereupon alignment of the respective apertures effects water dispersion at a forward portion of the nozzle. Rotation of the valve plate to misalign the apertures of the respective valve plate and nozzle effects water directed through a conduit to an adjoining oral hygiene tool for the cleansing of teeth by use of a conically valved dental applicator nozzle formed with an elongate flexible tube fixedly secured to the nozzle assembly rearwardly of the valve plate. Furthermore, a toothpick and dental floss holder is provided.

Abstract: An endodontic post construction is provided for anchoring a tooth restoration to a portion of a human tooth. At least first and second endodontic posts having first and second complementary surfaces are fitted together so that the posts together provide a generally non-circular cross-sectional shape which is resistive to rotation within a root canal of the tooth.