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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361697 | Prosthesis material Prosthesis material having improved stability during storage, reduced plaque affinity and improved polishing properties. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357637 | Dental appliance An appliance fabricated to improve the appearance of a patient's smile includes a plurality of simulated teeth. The interior surfaces of each of the teeth closely fits and conforms to the surface of a patient's real teeth while the outer surfaces of each of the simu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7175433 | Dental material and method The invention provides a dental composition including filler and a polymerizable dental material selected from the group consisting of wax-like polymerizable dental material and restorative paste wax polymerizable dental material. The dental composition is useful as... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7114951 | Method and shaped product-formed from low tack and fluorescing polymerizable dental material The invention provides a method of making a dental appliance by shaping a low ball tack polymerizable material. By including fluorescing agent the surfaces of dental appliances are visually identifiable. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7040885 | Duplication of lost dentures A mold used in duplicating a denture consists of a tissue side mold section and an exterior side mold section. The tissue side mold section is made of a dimensionally stable material, such as dental stone or an addition-cured silicone rubber, so that the tissue side... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7024770 | Method of making a dental product The invention provides high strength dental polymeric dental products made from wax-like polymerizable dental material. These dental products have superior strength compared to products formed from prior wax-like polymerizable materials. Prior wax-like polymerizable... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6447294 | Locator for lost dentures A locator or signaling device and a detector system for locating lost dentures includes a button or insert that can be mounted on the surface of an existing denture. An insert can also be implanted in a new denture. The internal signaling component is sur... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6139321 | Device for dispensing artificial teeth A device for dispensing artificial teeth comprises a tooth support ribbon (2) which is made from a flexible material and is shaped to form an arch which substantially corresponds in shape to an upper or lower natural dental arch. A set (10) of artificial ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6079981 | One visit denture This invention provides a method for making a customized denture from standardized segments of prefabricated prosthetic teeth which may be joined in an adjustable fashion to suit an individual oral cavity. The prosthetic tooth comprises a denture tooth bo... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6059571 | Method for embedding mark in denture and implement for making recess used therefor In order to solve such problem that heating a mark such as a one-chip microprocessor which is easily damaged thermally in case of curing a heat-curing resin enclosing such one-chip microprocessor could have not been essentially made in event of embedding ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5938442 | Coupled artificial tooth assembly Coupled artificial teeth which minimize the shaping work of gum when manufacturing a denture model and eliminates residues in the plaster mold are disclosed. A coupled artificial tooth assembly includes a plurality of teeth coupled together only by wax. O... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5775900 | Method of producing a clear stent for the edentulous implant patient and apparatus therefor A clear thermally deformable surgical or diagnostic stent which can be fitted to a fully or partially edentulous ridge and the surrounding tissue surfaces and a method of producing and fitting stents using their thermally deformable characteristics. A kit... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5502087 | Dental composition, prosthesis, and method for making dental prosthesis A dental prosthesis includes polymeric material formed by heat curing a polymerizable composition having at least 5 percent by weight of at least one polymerizable Monomer having at least one acrylic moiety and a gram molecular weight of at least 200. The... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5451498 | Denture covering existing teeth and gums This device includes two separate impression-molded all gum and cap-cup encasements (upper and lower arches) with veneered artificial teeth mounted to the encasement walls. The veneered encasements comprise the completed all gum and cap-cup dental device.... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5447967 | Completely ceramic dental prosthesis based on alumina/magnesia spinel and a process for its manufacture The invention relates to a biocompatible ceramic dental prosthesis having a translucency similar to that of natural tooth enamel and a high mechanical strength. It comprises a rigid, porous infrastructure obtained by the reactive calcination of fine parti... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5431563 | Mouldable composition and method of making it A thermoplastic article formed of a composition for customizable molding parts of devices such as dental plates or hand grips or sports equipment comprises a composition which is set below 37° C. and is conformably moldable between about 50° C. and 95°... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5348474 | Methods of recording dynamico-functional dental impressions Methods of recording a muco-dynamic or immediate functional impression of the dental arches of a patient onto the base or peripheral borders of a prosthetic denture, or rebasing a patient's prosthetic denture, utilizing a non-ionic, non-hydrophilic, impre... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5346866 | Dental ceramic material with a relatively low processing temperature A dental ceramic material is disclosed for the preparation and repair of metal ceramic and fully ceramic dentures, which has a processing temperature of 660°&#b1;30° C., and has the following composition: 60 to 65% by weight of SiO2, 8.5 to 1... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5324198 | Denture covering existing teeth and gums This device includes two separate impression-molded all gum and cap-cup encasements (upper and lower arches) with veneered artificial teeth mounted to the encasement walls. The veneered encasements comprise the completed all gum and cap-cup dental device.... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5304062 | Prosthetic denture precursor and method A prosthetic denture precursor includes at least one artificial tooth having a root portion; and a photopolymerizable denture base material holding the root portion of the at least one tooth, the photopolymerizable denture base material being deformable s... | 04/19/1994 |
| 5250352 | Process for the preparation of a dental prosthesis and the prosthesis produced by said process A ceramic dental prosthesis is produced from a shaped fritted metal oxide infrastructure whose pores are filled with a glass.... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5112640 | Silicone elastomer lined prosthetic devices and methods of manufacture Organopolysiloxane elastomers comprising copolymers of dimethyl and methylvinyl siloxanes provide improved facial and dental prosthetic materials, and are especially useful in preventing and treating chronic tissue irritation due to hard dental polymers. ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4838789 | Material packs for preparing plate dentures A material pack for the preparation of plate dentures comprises an outer pack formed of a material capable of shielding active energy beams, on which the necessary particulars are specified including the size and form of the jaws, the size, form and color... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4826435 | Denture base A denture base at least a part of which comprises a thermoplastic fluoroelastomer exhibits excellent characteristics as a denture base and particularly as a relining material for a denture base.... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4824373 | Swaged metal denture base A denture base of pressure-formed, superplastic alloy plate, and a method of making a metal denture base, includes providing a superplastic alloy plate and a female die having a finishing surface, and pressure-forming the alloy plate on the finishing surf... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4721466 | Tooth blocks A tooth-block for fabrication of dentures, including a horizontally deformable bar of rectangular cross-section provided along its upper margin with outwardly projecting retentions, each retention having an individual artificial tooth securely mounted the... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4705476 | Method and apparatus to produce artificial dentures This invention pertains to a method and apparatus to fabricate economical dentures for edentulous dental patients comprising attaching full arch unitary upper and lower sets of artificial teeth to denture base material and fabricated by a process develope... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4661065 | Soft denture liner The invention provides a denture liner composition for a composite denture based on a phosphonitrilic fluoroelastomer [poly(fluoroalkoxy)phosphazene] curable at atmospheric pressure at temperatures of about 100° C. or less, conveniently by immersing the ... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4657509 | Disposable impression tray and method of using A denture is made by providing an impression tray made of material malleable at less than 150° F. and rigid at body temperature, heating said tray and inserting it in the mouth while malleable and at less than 150° F., conforming it to the patient's mou... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4654006 | Denture base provided with rubber-like resilient lining layer and process for producing the same In accordance with the present invention, there can be provided a denture base for a dental prosthesis comprising a body having an inner surface to be in contact with patient's alveolus ridge; a lining layer covering the inner surface of the body; and an ... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4634561 | Method for joining ceramic components in precise spatial relationship Process for joining ceramic components in precise spatial relationship which comprises firing the ceramic components joined by a ceramic frit on a sagger tray having a coefficient of thermal expansion that matches that of the ceramic components.... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4583947 | Custom dentures and method of making same Customized dentures are manufactured by first producing denture bases in one of a plurality of standard sizes each having sockets therein for receiving an array of artificial teeth. Next, an array of artificial teeth removably coupled together by means of... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4579881 | Soft material for lining a denture base Disclosed herein is a soft, putty-like material for lining a denture base, comprising 100 parts by weight of a monomeric compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R2 | 04/01/1986 |
| 4562882 | Method of making a dental prosthesis A method of making a dental prosthesis includes providing an upper or a lower impression of the oral cavity of a patient; and filling such impression with a castable mixture comprising (1) a ceramic composition containing a major proportion of magnesia an... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4551098 | Method and apparatus to produce artificial dentures This invention pertains to a method and apparatus to fabricate economical dentures for edentulous dental patients comprising attaching full arch unitary upper and lower sets of artificial teeth to denture base material and fabricated by a process develope... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4533325 | Method and apparatus to produce artificial teeth for dentures This invention pertains to a method and apparatus to fabricate economical full arch unitary upper and lower sets of artificial teeth for use in preparing dentures for edentulous dental patients and attaching said sets of teeth to denture base material by ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4529777 | Dental casting resin from acrylic monomer, acrylic resin, and vinyl chloride resin A dental casting resin wherein the finished casting has a combined vinyl resin content of from 5 to 60% by wt. prepared by polymerizing liquid monomer, e.g. methyl methacrylate, in the presence of at least one vinyl resin and at least one acrylic resin, w... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4470815 | Method of making custom dentures A method of making custom dentures from an uncured resin module wherein the module, molded to standard dimensions and including sockets for artificial teeth, is cooled to a low temperature to impart rigidity and prevent curing. The module with teeth in pl... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4469477 | Dental prosthesis A dental prosthesis which has the whole or part of its surface which is in contact with the mucous membrane of the mouth coated with a soft, hydrophilic polyurethane is provided. The polyurethane coating has a thickness of from 0.1 to 3.00 mm when hydrate... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4457713 | Denture forming method Disclosed is a method for forming a denture in-situ in the mouth of a dental patient. The method starts with a try-in of the teeth in wax formed to duplicate in shape the desired form of the finished denture. An in-situ impression of the try-in in alginat... | 07/03/1984 |
