Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dental instrument
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Application No.: US14070661Application Date: 2013-11-04
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Publication No.: US09655688B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: John Ladd , Joe Kinney
- Applicant: L & K Dental Instruments
- Agency: Woodard Emhardt Moriarty McNett & Henry LLP
- Main IPC: A61C3/00
- IPC: A61C3/00

Abstract:
A dental instrument device includes a middle body with two ends, a pair of removable instrument tips, a pair of securing collets, and a pair of removable end caps. Each end of the middle body terminates in a middle body/instrument tip connection interface that receives a right-handed instrument tip only in a first orientation and a left-handed instrument tip only in a second orientation differing from the first orientation. The removable instrument tips have a similar middle body/instrument tip connection interface, and a working instrument end with a right-handed or a left-handed orientation. A right-handed instrument tip is releasably connected to the first middle body/instrument tip connection interface, and a left-handed instrument tip is releasably connected to the second middle body/instrument tip connection interface, with the right-handed and left-handed orientations being visually distinguishable one from the other by casual observation of an ordinary observer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150125816A1 DENTAL INSTRUMENT Public/Granted day:2015-05-07
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