Optical fiber for use with dental laser

Patent 5169318 Issued on December 8, 1992. Estimated Expiration Date:

December 11, 2011. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Levy, Guy

Assignee

Endo Technic Corporation

Application

No. 804918 filed on 12/11/1991

US Classes:

433/226, By filling, bonding or cementing433/215, METHOD OR MATERIAL FOR TESTING, TREATING, RESTORING, OR REMOVING NATURAL TEETH433/229MISCELLANEOUS

Examiners

Primary: O'Connor, Cary E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Spensley Horn Jubas & Lubitz

International Class

A61C 005/04

Foreign Application Priority Data

1988-12-21 FR

Abstract

A thermoplastic optical fiber for use in treatments requiring filling of openings, recesses, passages, or crevices in mineralized physiologic tissue, the fiber having at least a portion composed of at least one ingredient which is capable of being placed in a flowable state when heated by application of selected laser radiation, is physiologically compatible with the mineralized physiologic tissue and bonds with the mineralized tissue.