Abstract: A fiber tipped dental substance applicator is disclosed. The applicator may include a fluid passageways through which a dental substance may flow fibers at the end of the applicator. The tip may include a flocked smoothing bulb.

Abstract: A fiber tipped dental substance applicator that is insertable into a bore of an exit orifice of a syringe. The applicator may include one or more fluid passageways through which a dental substance may flow from the syringe to fibers at the end of the applicator. The tip may include a flocked smoothing bulb.

Abstract: A method for bleaching teeth is disclosed. The method includes the formation of a dental bleaching tray in a one step process that includes placing a moldable material adjacent teeth, permitting the moldable material to cure, and removing the cured moldable material which will then serve as a dental bleaching tray. Dental bleach may be placed into the dental bleaching tray and the tray may be placed onto teeth to accomplish bleaching. The entirety of the process may be performed at a patient's home or at a dental office, as desired.

Abstract: A highly damped kinematic coupling for precision instruments. The kinematic coupling provides support while causing essentially no influence to its nature shape, with such influences coming, for example, from manufacturing tolerances, temperature changes, or ground motion. The coupling uses three ball-cone constraints, each combined with a released flexural degree of freedom. This arrangement enables a gain of higher load capacity and stiffness, but can also significantly reduce the friction level in proportion to the ball radius divided by the distance between the ball and the hinge axis. The blade flexures reduces somewhat the stiffness of the coupling and provides an ideal location to apply constrained-layer damping which is accomplished by attaching a viscoelastic layer and a constraining layer on opposite sides of each of the blade flexures.