Alexander M Theodore

US Patent:

56429940, Jul 1, 1997

Filed:

Jun 26, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/494838

Inventors:

E. Terry Chipian - Sandy UT
Eric Simon - Salt Lake City UT
Alexander Theodore - Salt Lake City UT

Assignee:

Propheze, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT

International Classification:

A61C 110
A61C 112
A61C 1702

US Classification:

433 82

Abstract:

A fluid storage and dispensing container for cleaning teeth, which includes a modified prophy angle headpiece that attaches to existing hand-held prophy cup dental instrument handpieces. The headpiece has an integrated passage through the headpiece by which a fluid is dispensed from the fluid container to the rotatable prophy cup. The headpiece has a lumen through the angle that won't tear or close under flow pressure. The headpiece has a shelf on a top surface for guiding placement of the fluid container, and a snap-fit retaining clip at a base of the headpiece for securing a plurality of different fluid containers. A preferred embodiment of a fluid storage container is a flexible tube that is depressed by a finger or thumb to dispense a fluid such as prophylactic paste or a polishing lubricant to the prophy cup.