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公开(公告)号:US11766177B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-26
申请号:US17337563
申请日:2021-06-03
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA inc.
Inventor: Thomas Ertl , Naim Karazivan , Alexander Savic
CPC classification number: A61B5/0088 , A61B5/0261 , A61B5/682 , A61B2562/0238 , A61C1/088
Abstract: A dental probe for determining the vitality of a tooth, comprising a light emitter and a light receiver, wherein the light emitter emits light from an emitter surface adapted to be positioned on a hard dental surface of a tooth, wherein the light receiver collects light incident on a receiver surface adapted to be positioned on a hard dental surface of the tooth so that the optical path of the light emitted from the light emitter passes at least through a portion of the pulp chamber of the tooth. The light receiver includes a light shielding spacer member adjacent to the optical path for establishing and maintaining a distance of at least 50 μm between the gum line and the optical path at the receiver surface. The light emitter further a light shielding spacer member adjacent to the optical path for establishing and maintaining a distance between the gum line and the optical path at the emitter surface, wherein the light shielding spacer member establishes and maintains a distance of at least 50 μm between the gum line and the optical path at the emitter surface, and in that an apical-coronal diameter of the light emitter surface and the light receiver surface is at most 1200 μm in the direction normal to the optical path.
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公开(公告)号:US11638634B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-02
申请号:US15714409
申请日:2017-09-25
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
Inventor: Thomas Ertl , Rolf Diebolder
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for the cleaning of a circumferentially closed canal by means of a light guide conducting a laser beam, wherein the entry of the laser beam into the light guide is interrupted when the free end of the light guide is outside of the canal and/or the movement of the light guide within the canal is monitored and if there is no movement or the movement is below a first threshold value then a signal is triggered and/or the laser radiation is turned off or its output is reduced, and wherein the turning off of the laser radiation or its reducing is controlled in dependency of at least one signal change and/or a second threshold and/or a signal change relative to the second threshold determined during at least one course of time starting before and including the entry of the light guide into the canal.
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公开(公告)号:US11311360B2
公开(公告)日:2022-04-26
申请号:US15466146
申请日:2017-03-22
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
Inventor: Thomas Ertl , Rolf Diebolder
IPC: A61C5/55 , A61C17/02 , A61C5/50 , A61C1/00 , A61N5/06 , A61B18/22 , A61C13/15 , A61N5/067 , A61B18/00
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sealing of a circumferentially closed canal. A closure element is secured to one free end of a light guide conducting a laser beam. The light guide with the closure element is introduced into the canal. The closure element is positioned in the region of the canal to be sealed and after positioning of the closure element energy is introduced, so that the closure element melts or softens and remains in this position in the canal and seals it tightly.
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公开(公告)号:US11045295B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-29
申请号:US15352274
申请日:2016-11-15
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
Inventor: Naim Karazivan , Hui Lu , Thomas Ertl
IPC: A61C13/15 , G01N21/64 , C09D5/22 , A61C13/00 , A61B5/00 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y80/00 , A61C5/30 , B33Y30/00 , A61C5/70 , A61C5/77 , B29C64/129 , A61C13/09 , A61K6/25 , A61K6/30 , A61K6/40 , A61K6/70 , A61K6/78 , A61K6/822 , A61K6/824 , A61K6/838 , A61K6/887 , A61C7/14 , A61C7/16 , B29L31/00
Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system including a feed source of uncured filled resin material, a print head configured to apply discrete layers of a composition including upconversion phosphors, and a radiation source configured to irradiate layers of uncured filled resin material and deposited layers of the composition is provided. A method of three dimensionally printing a dental article is also provided.
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公开(公告)号:US10238476B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-26
申请号:US15584174
申请日:2017-05-02
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
Inventor: Naim Karazivan , Hui Lu , Thomas Ertl
IPC: A61C13/15 , G01N21/64 , C09D5/22 , A61C13/00 , A61B5/00 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y80/00 , A61C5/30 , A61K6/00 , A61K6/02 , A61K6/083 , B33Y30/00 , A61C13/09 , A61C5/70 , A61C5/77 , B29C64/129 , A61C7/14 , A61C7/16 , B29L31/00
Abstract: A method of attaching a dental article to the surface of a tooth includes providing the dental article and applying a coating including upconversion phosphors to a surface of the dental article. The method also includes applying a dental cement composition to the surface of the tooth and placing the dental article on the surface of the tooth such that the coating is adjacent the dental cement composition. The dental cement composition includes a polymerizable resin and a photoinitiator and is substantially free of upconversion phosphors. The method further includes irradiating the coating with a radiation source that emits radiation at a pre-determined fixed wavelength that causes the upconversion phosphors to emit radiation at an activation wavelength of the dental cement composition photoinitiator such that the dental cement composition cures in a region adjacent the coating and removing remaining uncured dental cement composition outside the dental article from the tooth.
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公开(公告)号:US11547538B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-10
申请号:US15465746
申请日:2017-03-22
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
Inventor: Thomas Ertl , Rolf Diebolder
IPC: A61C5/50 , A61C17/02 , A61C5/55 , A61C1/00 , A61N5/06 , A61B18/22 , A61C13/15 , A61N5/067 , A61B18/00
Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for the cleaning of a circumferentially closed canal by means of a light guide conducting a laser beam. The entry of the laser beam into the light guide is interrupted when the free end of the light guide is outside of the canal and/or the movement of the light guide within the canal is monitored and that if there is no movement or the movement is below a threshold value then a signal is triggered and/or the laser radiation is turned off or its output is reduced.
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公开(公告)号:US10456228B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15352346
申请日:2016-11-15
Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
Inventor: Naim Karazivan , Hui Lu , Thomas Ertl
IPC: A61C13/15 , G01N21/64 , C09D5/22 , A61C13/00 , A61B5/00 , B33Y10/00 , B33Y80/00 , A61C5/30 , A61K6/00 , A61K6/02 , A61K6/083 , B33Y30/00 , A61C5/70 , A61C5/77 , B29C64/129 , A61C13/09 , A61C7/14 , A61C7/16 , B29L31/00
Abstract: A method of diagnosing optical inhomogeneity of a volume scattering object is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a substance coated with phosphorous materials, adapting the substrate to a surface of a volume scattering object to be diagnosed, and trans-illuminating the volume scattering object with radiation. A dental tool including a substrate is also provided. The substrate includes a transparent flexible film or metallic foil with an applied coating of upconversion phosphors, afterglow particles or both.
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