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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080032253 | Device and method for improving oral health The present invention relates to a method for improving the oral health of a subject by exposing the oral cavity of the subject to a device comprising a light source that emits a therapeutically effective amount of light. The present invention further relates to devices... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032254 | Light curing device The invention relates to a light curing device (10) having a light source (14), which is mounted such that it is thermally conductively connected to a heat sink (12), with electrical components which are fitted to a printed circuit board. The compon... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032255 | Method And Apparatus For Monitoring The Structure Of A Tooth There is described a method o monitoring the structure of a tooth comprising:—placing an electrode carrier, having at least three electrodes, adjacent the tooth such that the electrodes contact at least one of the occlusal, approximal or free smooth surfaces of the to... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032256 | Device and Method for Forming a Custom Oral Appliance In one embodiment, a method includes: accessing a bite register with a post, upper and lower dental models, and a fixture having upper and lower plates and a clamp; coupling the register post to the fixture, such that the register post has a first orientation; coupling ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032257 | X-ray reference device and method of use A dental X-ray reference device comprised of a radiopaque marker having a known dimension and a tooth overlay molding adapted to secure the radiopaque marker in close proximity to a tooth. Also disclosed is a process for measuring teeth for implant placement or root can... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032258 | Microimplant placement guide A microimplant placement guide is disclosed. The microimplant placement guide includes a jig having a through-hole and a guide hole for guiding a dental drill or a microimplant to be inserted into an alveolar bone, a supporting member including a flexible wire which pas... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032259 | Apparatus for Evacuation of Root Canal In an endodontic procedure, after the working of a root canal by instruments to remove material and shape the walls of the canal, irrigant is supplied via a microcannula. A vacuum is applied via a tube which is inserted partway down the root canal. The tube and microcan... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032260 | Dental And Medical Instruments Comprising Titanium Endodontic instruments for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth are disclosed. In one form, the instruments include an elongate shank having a cutting edge extending from a distal end of the shank along an axial length of the shank. The shank comprises a tita... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032261 | Bearing for dental handpiece A dental handpiece (10) has a supporting rotor assembly (15) and ball bearings (13, 14) supporting the rotor. Each ball bearing (13, 14) has a plurality of balls (22). Each bearing (13, 14) has an inner race (20) and an o... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032262 | DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF A dental implant system comprising an implant member, an abutment member and a transfer key with cooperatively engaging structures for ensuring proper alignment and orientation of an abutment assembled on the implant member and for preparing an accurate dental impressio... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032263 | Dental Implant System and Method A dental implant system comprising an implant member, an abutment member and a transfer key with cooperatively engaging structures for ensuring proper alignment and orientation of an abutment assembled on the implant member and for preparing an accurate dental impressio... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032264 | IMPLANT ARRANGEMENT An implant is arranged with a thread which can be exposed to a jaw bone and which has a first extent in the longitudinal direction of the implant. Thread flanks are assigned second extents between the inner and outer peripheries of the thread. Along all or most of the f... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032265 | Dental cleaning device An electric toothbrush with a removable brush section having a transponder communicating with a handle portion of the toothbrush via a non-contacting inductive coupling. ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032266 | Superstructure Body for a Dental Crown Superstructure System The present invention is a superstructure body for a dental crown superstructure system on a treated tooth stump and/or dental root. The treated tooth includes a bore or recess in which the superstructure body is inserted. The superstructure body includes a through-bore... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032267 | Multimedia system and process for medical, safety, and health improvements A multimedia system and method provide self-improvement guidance in health, education, or safety. The user receives content material related to self-improvement, tracking of self-improvement behaviors, alerts to potential health dangers, and help information. A variety ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032268 | Method and apparatus for monitoring handling of a firearm A firearm monitoring system according to the present invention senses the position of a user hand or trigger finger on a weapon and generates a warning, notification, status or control signal when the user finger position is proximate the trigger. One embodiment generat... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032269 | Table generating method, information processing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded table generating program thereon A method of generating a table in which data having time or period information is laid out at corresponding positions along a chronological axis includes the steps of displaying a table generating screen including a table generating area; displaying the chronological ax... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032270 | RESPONSE SCORING SYSTEM FOR VERBAL BEHAVIOR WITHIN A BEHAVIORAL STREAM WITH A REMOTE CENTRAL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD COMMUNICATING DEVICES A system, method and related devices for monitoring and improving the training and social eye contact and communication skills of developmentally challenged individuals such as autistic individuals and other individuals with special needs in improving their interpersona... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032271 | Method and System for Evaluating Athletes A method and system of evaluating athletes includes the steps of subjecting an athlete to a first battery of objective tests directed to the athlete's functioning brain capacity; determining a set of test scores for the athlete; providing a data base comprising of compe... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032272 | Surgery Practice Kit A simple to use, inexpensive and readily portable surgical practice and teaching kit is described that includes in portfolio form a two layer practice suturing pad including a latex rubber layer simulating human skin attached to a plastic foam layer that simulates under... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032273 | Anatomical model An anatomical model for simulating internal body structures of a patient, which in one embodiment includes a shell that simulates a body cavity and a length of animal tissue that simulates an organ in the body cavity. A sheath surrounds the animal tissue and is secured ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032274 | Penis demonstration model A penis erection demonstration model including a motor driving a gear assembly, a cam driven by a gear of the gear assembly, a plunger extending from the cam, and an elastic arm extending from a casing of the demonstration model and encasing the plunger. Rotation of the... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032275 | Interactive system A interactive system and a method illustrates the subject matter of a book or a plurality of documents. The system has a housing assembly, a selector, and a video screen. A book or a plurality of documents are positioned in a receiving zone of the housing assembly in a ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032276 | Interactive system A interactive system and a method illustrates the subject matter of an object. The system has an object having an external surface, a housing, a selector that selects a specific location on the external surface, and a video screen that displays video images associated w... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032277 | DYNAMIC MULTIPLE CHOICE ANSWERS Presenting answers to a plurality of recipients comprises presenting media content to the recipients, presenting a question based on the content to the recipients, and presenting answers to the recipients. The answers presented to one recipient are different from the an... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032278 | Engineered Tubular Tissue Structures A method and apparatus and associated components are described for producing a cellular tissue structure including a wall surrounding a space or passage. A suspension of cells is introduced into a culture vessel (70) of elongate tubular form defining an internal ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032279 | Reovirus clearance of ras-mediated neoplastic cells from mixed cellular compositions Reovirus can be used to selectively remove ras-mediated neoplastic cells from a cellular composition. It is of particular interest to purge autographs which may contain neoplastic cells with reovirus before transplanting the autographs back into the recipient, thereby r... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032280 | Method and Kits for Detecting Human Cytomegalovirus The present invention provides methods and kits for detecting human cytomegalovirus. The present invention also provides oligonucleotides for detecting human cytomegalovirus.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032281 | Method and Device for Rapid Detection and Quantitation of Macro and Micro Matrices The present invention provides a method and device for rapidly detecting the presence of analytes in a sample. Quantitative and qualitative measurements of analyte concentration in a sample may be rapidly obtained. A sample including the analyte and analyte metabolites ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032282 | Methods and applications of molecular beacon imaging for infectious disease and cancer detection Molecular beacon for detecting an infection and/or expression or a mutation of a disease marker for diagnostics and pharmacogenomics. The molecular beacon is capable of hybridizing a disease-related RNA or DNA of a disease marker in a specimen obtained from a living sub... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032283 | TELOMELYSIN/GFP-EXPRESSING RECOMBINANT VIRUS The present invention relates to providing a reagent for cancer cell detection or cancer diagnosis, a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer, and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a subject. Specifically, the present invention relates to a rea... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032284 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS AND UTILIZATION THEREOF PARTICULARLY FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions that act on the p53 protein or its gene and methods of use for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032285 | Sequences Diagnostic for Foot and Mouth Disease Methods and materials for the detection of the foot and mouth disease virus (FMDV). The methods may utilize PCR amplification, with or without an internal positive control, and appropriate primer pairs. The reagents to perform these methods can be supplied as a kit and/... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032286 | Competition Assay for Identifying Modulators of Quadruplex Nucleic Acids Featured herein are competition assays useful for identifying candidate molecules that selectively interact with a nucleic acid having a particular quadruplex structure.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032287 | Method for Detecting and Quantifying Rare Mutations/Polymorphisms The present invention is directed to a method for detecting and quantifying rare mutations in a nucleic acid sample. The nucleic acid molecules under investigation can be either DNA or RNA. The rare mutation can be any type of functional or non-functional nucleic acid c... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032288 | Labeling Reagents, Methods for the Synthesis of Such Reagents and Methods for the Detection of Biological Molecules The present invention relates to a temperature-stable labeling reagent of formula (0): in which:
| 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032289 | Novel TWIK-6, TWIK-7, IC23927, TWIK-8, IC47611, IC47615, HNMDA-1, TWIK-9, alpha2delta-4, 8099, 46455, 54414, 53763, 97076, 97102, 44181, 67084Fl and 67084alt molecules and uses therefor The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated TWIK-6, TWIK-7, IC23927, TWIK-8, IC47611, IC47615, HNMDA-1, TWIK-9, α2δ-4, 8099, 46455, 54414, 53763, 97076, 97102, 44181, 67084FL and 67084alt nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel io... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032290 | Nanopore flow cells Systems and methods for nanopore flow cells are provided.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032291 | METHOD OF HAPLOTYPE-BASED GENETIC ANALYSIS FOR DETERMINING RISK FOR DEVELOPING INSULIN RESISTANCE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND OTHER PHENOTYPES Disclosed is a method for determining haplotypes useful for large-scale genetic analysis, within a genomic reference sequence of interest, for a human subpopulation. The method can applied to statistically evaluating the genotypes of subjects for any statistically signi... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032292 | Methods for the Detection of Ovarian Cancer Methods and kits for the detection of ovarian cancer are provided. ... | 02/07/2008 |
