Abstract: A holder for turbine-driven dental tools such as drills. The holder is made of two-parts comprising an elongated shank and an anglepiece having a head in which is mounted an air-driven turbine for driving the dental tools. Provision is made by a coupling structure for attachably coupling the anglepiece to the shank. A finger-grip sleeve is provided on the coupling structure that allows the holder to be held in position while angularly positioning the holder angularly at set angular positions relative to the sleeve. The operator can thus hold the holder at a desired position and still rotate the anglepiece angularly by rotating the shank about its axis.

Abstract: A miniature motor for driving a hand-held instrument such as a dental handpiece, the motor having at one end a connecting member for supplying coolant to a motor coolant line and motive energy to the motor, and at the other end a coupling member to which a hand-held instrument can be releasably connected. An intermediate coolant line in the coupling member serves to transfer coolant from the motor coolant line to a coolant supply line in the instrument which directs the coolant to a working implement at one end of the instrument. The coolant line in the motor comprises a tubular member which is removably mounted in the motor and has a releasable connection at its inlet end to a coolant supply connector in the connecting member, and a releasable connection at its outlet end to the intermediate coolant line in the coupling member. At least one of these releasable connections is provided in a closure member which is removable in order to render the tubular member accessible for servicing.

Abstract: A dental handpiece comprises two sections, notably in the case of a contra-angle, which are rigidly assembled and both provided with an aligned passage for delivering the liquid to be atomized to the head of the handpiece, said passage being incorporated in the wall of each section and the joint between the two sections comprises an annular seal fitted in a recess surrounding the passage and formed in one section, the length of this seal being slightly greater than the depth of the recess, so that the outer edge of the seal tightly engages the registering face formed in the other section, this arrangement being adaptable to all dental handpieces provided with internal passage means for the liquid intended for cooling the tool.

Abstract: A milling device for cutting a circular arcuate slot in a human jawbone, which slot is adapted to receive an endossal implant for mounting a denture. The device has a circular sawblade mounted in a housing comprising two parts. One part is adapted to slide into the other and carries the rotatably mounted sawblade. The other part serves as a guide to control the direction and distance the blade moves with respect to the bone being cut, thereby providing an accurately dimensioned slot for receiving the implant.

Abstract: A dental handpiece connector is adapted to be inserted between a standard dental handpiece and a standard supply tube for the handpiece. The connector allows rocking movement of the handpiece about a transverse axis and also allows rotary movement of the handpiece about a longitudinal axis, while continuing a supply of air or air and water from the supply tube to the handpiece. There is a detent to establish a preferred rocking position of the handpiece relative to the connector.

Abstract: This invention relates to a dental drill which includes a built in fluid conveying tube to supply a fluid in the form of water which becomes a mist when it strikes a rotating burr.The drill also includes a built in suction apparatus which can aspirate fluid and air from the area around the burr during the course of the drilling operation. The burr is usually driven by means of an air turbine, but the aspirated fluid-air mixture can be made to pass transversely across the turbine becoming the driving force for rotating the burr.