Abstract: An adjustable dental impression tray including a first arcuate member and a second arcuate member configured to selectively engage the first arcuate member. The first and second arcuate members forming a channel adapted to receive a quantity of impression material. The adjustable dental impression tray having a handle formed at one end which facilitates the introduction and removal of the impression tray into and from the mouth of a patient. An adjustment mechanism engageably disposed in relation to the first and second arcuate members, wherein the adjustment mechanism provides for the selective adjustment of the first arcuate member in at least one fixed position relative to the second arcuate position, wherein defining one or more widths of the channel. Preferably, the channel is formed having a general U-shaped configuration which approximates the various sizes of the dentition of a patient. In preferred design, each of the arcuate members comprise an outer wall, an inner wall and a platform surface.

Abstract: An adjustable dental impression tray including a first arcuate member and a second arcuate member configured to selectively engage the first arcuate member. The first and second arcuate members forming a channel adapted to receive a quantity of impression material. The adjustable dental impression tray having a handle formed at one end which facilitates the introduction and removal of the impression tray into and from the mouth of a patient. An adjustment mechanism engageably disposed in relation to the first and second arcuate members, wherein the adjustment mechanism provides for the selective adjustment of the first arcuate member in at least one fixed position relative to the second arcuate position, wherein defining one or more widths of the channel. Preferably, the channel is formed having a general U-shaped configuration which approximates the various sizes of the dentition of a patient. In preferred design, each of the arcuate members comprise an outer wall, an inner wall and a platform surface.

Abstract: An adjustable dental impression tray includes a first and second arcuate member movably attached at a proximal end of each arcuate member. The adjustable dental impression tray includes a handle to facilitate removal of the tray from a person's mouth. The dental impression tray also includes an adjustment mechanism which allows the user to position the first arcuate member relative to the second arcuate member to form a U-shaped channel which approximates the patients dentition. The dental impression is further configured with a locking member to receive and retain impression material into the tray.

Abstract: A dental absorbency device is disclosed in one presently preferred embodiment of the present invention as including a flat section comprising a single sheet of a highly absorbent material having a contoured elongated shape preferably sized to fit comfortably within a human mouth for the purpose of absorbing moisture, contaminants, blood, saliva, water, and/or other fluids at an operative field. In preferred design, the flat section may be formed having an upper surface, a lower surface, and peripheral edges which are unobstructed to fluid flow so as to provide a means for encouraging the absorption of fluids therethrough. The upper surface is preferably formed having an impervious, non-absorbent coating that resists slippage of the elongated flat section when disposed within the mouth of a patient.

Abstract: A mouth dam formed by cutting, punching or the like, each mouth dam from a sandwich of sheets of a thin, highly absorbing material, which sheets may be coated with a surfactant and further may include a flavor impregnated therein. Each mouth dam is cut, shaped or otherwise formed to be sealed at its edges, to have a length to width relationship where the length is three to four times the width, the width of the mouth dam ends is greater than at its center and the mouth dam sides slope uniformly from the center to the ends with an open area as a reservoir between the sealed mouth dam edges. A preferred mouth dam of the invention has a width at its ends that is from one-quarter (1/4) to five-eights (5/8) of an inch and a length that is from one to one and three-quarters (13/4) inch.