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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7997900 | Partial denture A partial denture having an artificial tooth, a denture base holding the artificial tooth, and a clasp fixed to the denture base, wherein the clasp includes a back-side arm and a front-side arm and does not include a rest, the back-side arm extending in a rearward b... | 08/16/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7278849 | Dental prosthesis with metal-free anchoring elements The invention relates to dental prostheses which have at least one metal-free anchoring element made of plastic material with a bending modulus of elasticity of at least 10 GPa and a maximum elongation of at least 0.8%. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7156637 | Apparatus for producing dental prostheses Disclosed are an apparatus, materials, devices and methods for the use of a variety of thermoplastic resins in fabricating dental prostheses without the use of expensive hot-press equipment unavailable to most dental laboratories. The prostheses made by the process ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6267596 | Dental appliance A dental appliance includes a lingual section adapted to engage at least one abutment tooth. A first tissue replacement portion extends from one end portion of the lingual section. A second tissue replacement portion extends from another end portion of th... | 07/31/2001 |
| 5791900 | Temporary tooth construction A temporary tooth construction 10 for attachment to portions of permanent teeth 101, 102 on opposite sides of a gap formed by at least one missing tooth. The temporary tooth construction 10 includes a tooth members 20 provided with a pair of anchor member... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5785526 | Method for adapting a crown to an existing partial denture A method for adapting a crown to a clasp and rest of an existing partial denture without depriving a patient of the partial denture during the time the crown is being fabricated in a dental laboratory. The method comprises the steps of fabricating an accu... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5776195 | Procedure and device for facilitating osseous growth A procedure for facilitating osseous growth, particularly in dental surgery and in maxillofacial surgery, and device for implementing this procedure is disclosed. The device includes an elastic member which is interposed between bone surface and a membran... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5364269 | Partial denture The present invention entails a partial denture that is basically constructed of a relatively hard acrylic material and includes a series of artificial teeth implanted along the ridge of the denture. The denture is particularly designed for a certain pati... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5102337 | Prefabricated thermoplastic clasp A prefabricated thermoplastic clasp from whose structure a permanent clasp is formed around teeth anchoring partial removable prosthesis and dentures without the necessity of fashioning metal clasps by the lost wax method or by plastic clasps by injection... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4950162 | Framework for producing tooth-replacing bridges A prefabricated bridge framework for producing tooth-replacement bridges consists of a support bar to bridge over a gap between teeth and connecting elements for placing the support bar on bridge pillars. The bridge framework as a whole is made of a denta... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4917605 | Dental locking clasp member The dental locking clasp member comprises a U-shaped piece having twin arms with substantially flat parallel opposing inner surfaces connected to an anchor portion having a plurality of anchor grooves. The twin arms have twin opposing locking recesses adj... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4544358 | Denture fixtures Denture fixture for connecting a denture to an existing tooth in a patient's mouth. The denture fixture includes an anchorage permanently joined to the denture and retention means mounted to a tooth and formed to interlock with anchoring means extending f... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4514173 | Denture coupling A prosthetic denture which releasably engages natural abutment teeth to releasably hold it in place in the user's mouth. The denture has a continuous lingual flange and a buccal flange which is interrupted adjacent at least one tooth of a consecutive seri... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4060898 | Clip-on dental restoration and tools for removing same The invention relates to a removable dental restoration for filling an edentulous space defined at each end by a natural tooth, the restoration having at each end a means for resiliently gripping the adjacent natural tooth. In a first embodiment, the grip... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4059900 | Clip-on dental restoration and tools for removing same The invention relates to a removable dental restoration for filling an edentulous space defined at each end by a natural tooth, the restoration having at each end a means for resiliently gripping the adjacent natural tooth. In a first embodiment, the grip... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4014094 | Dental hinge structure A hinge bar and product assembly for use in manufacture of partial dentures including a hinge bar having a cylindrical end surface thereon adapted to be received internal of a mating support member attached to supporting natural teeth. The cylindrical end... | 03/29/1977 |
