Did You Know...
...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7338285 | Disposable prophy angle with encompassing integral toroidal paste pouch for attaching to a dental handpiece A dental cleaning attachment for a dental handpiece which comprises a disposable prophy angle having a neck and a right angle head, wherein the neck is removably attached to the dental handpiece. A polishing cup is rotatably connected to the head of the prophy angle... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7247022 | Dental tray system with releasable hold inner and outer dental trays A dental treatment system used to treat (e.g., bleach) a person's teeth. The inventive system includes an inner dental treatment tray having a tray configuration so as to fit over at least a portion of a person's upper or lower dental arch. The inner dental treatmen... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7112064 | Denture A denture has a body with a plurality of concavities in a first surface of the body—the first surface, in use, abutting soft tissue of the mouth. A plurality of through holes extend from the first surface to an opposite, second, surface. ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 5597306 | Method for separable attachment of an epithesis to a bone, and epithesis with a fixing device by means of which this method can be applied A method and apparatus for separable attachment of an epithesis to a bone. Osseointegrated fixtures with internal threads are implanted into the bone with said fixtures being accessible from the outside. Removable screws, each with a head protruding outwa... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5490782 | Preformed posterior palatel seal for existing dentures and method A preformed posterior palatal seal (Preformed PPS) for securing to, anatonically based existing dentures includes a body preformed of a predetermined size and shape of a posterior palatal seal (PPS) for sealing an existing denture at the "Ah line" of the ... | 02/13/1996 |
| 4808110 | Method for affixing an improved denture appliance A method for affixing an improved denture appliance including artificial teeth fixedly secured with respect to one another within a support member wherein the support member defines an arcuate concave mounting channel therein which is adapted to be positi... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4548582 | Method of making dental prostheses A method of making dental prosthesis in which an occlusion model representing a jaw impression obtained with the existing prosthesis is prepared, a guideline is marked a short distance from the edge of the prosthesis. A thin layer of adhesive is applied t... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4311462 | Dentures It has been found that the upper and lower dentures of false teeth tend to remain more securely in place if the marginal edges of the outer flange, in the case of the upper denture, and the inner flange, in the case of the lower denture, are thickened in ... | 01/19/1982 |
