Abstract: A handling device for a dental tool having a) a body having an elongated shape configured to receive a prying load from an operator; and b) one or more receptacles through the body configured to retain at least a portion of a dental tool and allow an engagement portion of the dental tool to project therefrom substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body; wherein the engagement portion is adapted to contact a portion of a dental covering along only one of a facial side or a lingual side of the dental covering and by being wedged between a gum-line and the dental covering; and wherein the one or more receptacles are configured to transfer the prying load from the body to the engagement portion of the dental tool.

Abstract: The invention discloses an integrated 3 D surgical guide, guide bar, mini-implant system and a procedure to stabilize dental prostheses, based on implanting two parallel mini-implants at a given distance and then joining them by means of a prosthetic bar mounted on them, thus achieving the required strength to mount on the bar a metallic clip that retains a dental prosthesis. The advantage of this integrated system is the stabilization of dental prostheses with high precision and save standardized protocol, lower costs and less trauma for the patient than the traditionally used method.

Abstract: Device for pushing away an enclosure arranged around a dental element. When filling dental elements, it is important that adjacent dental elements should come into contact with one another at a defined location. To this end, the invention proposes a tool for pushing the enclosure arranged around the dental element onto the adjacent dental element during the filling operation. In the vicinity of the free end, this tool is provided with a thickened section which has to push away an enclosure of this type. This thickened section is provided with a recess in the vicinity of the free end, approximately in the center. This recess forms an elevation in the filling material, and in this way shrinkage stresses can be guided out of the center of the filling material towards the outside, resulting in a shrinkage-free filling.

Abstract: A latching device for enabling pieces of tissue or foreign bodies to be held securely by medical forceps during a medical operation comprises two elongate spring members whose opposed ends are secured in closed, telescoping tubes which are hinged to the handles of a forceps. The forceps handles are elastically yielding to some degree and by closing them together the spring members are moved towards one another and are caused to hook together by means of butting faces. Hence the tissue or the like which the forceps has taken hold of is automatically held secure once the manual pressure on the handle has been relaxed. If the handles are pressed closer together, the hooked interengagement is released and the spring-loading in the forceps handles opens them and allows the forceps jaws to release the tissue or the like which is being held.

Abstract: A pair of dental forceps, whether configured for anterior, premolar or molar teeth, includes a pair of tips having removable cushioning and gripping inserts for conformingly gripping and frictionally retaining a respective dental prosthetic device, such as a crown or bridge, to be removed without imposing stress concentrations sufficient to mar or damage the dental prosthetic device.

Abstract: An articulable, rotatable, surgical clamping device which includes an upper handle portion connected to a fixed collar which acts on a center spindle element. The center spindle element subtended by a fixed collar slidingly engages clamp extender elements so as to alternately pull them towards each other or apart so as to clamp the clamping elements. The clamp extender elements being separated from the handle elements by a rotatable cuff which allows free rotation between the plane of articulation of the clamp elements and the plane containing the handle portions.

Abstract: A tool in the form of specially constructed plyers for removing orthodontic brackets and tubes which have been adhesively bonded to the labial, buccal or lingual surfaces of the anterior and/or posterior teeth for orthodontic treatment. The tool is equipped with a spring-loaded catch having a tip which fits under the edge of the bracket, and with a head which engages the top of the tooth, so that when the handles of the tool are squeezed together the bonded bracket is removed from the surface of the tooth without any tendency to torque the tooth during the process.