A dental clamp can support a flexible sheet around a tooth during a dental operation and may include a resilient member from which jaws may attach to the tooth at opposite sides thereofthe lingual side, facing the patient's tongue, and the buccal side, facing the patient's cheek. The rubber dam clamp can be made of resin materials that may not interfere with the X-ray pattern. The rubber dam clamp can further include a tube around the clamp in order to provide suction to the patient without the need for a separate assistant to be dedicated to providing suction. The rubber dam clamp can decrease overall office costs, provide better X-ray patterns and resolution for radiographic images and retain the flexible sheet around the tooth as needed during the dental operation.

The present application is directed to a curable composition and a method for isolating a working area in a patient's mouth. The curable composition can include a borate-crosslinked polysiloxane, at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising at least two polymerizable groups, and an initiator.

The present application is directed to a curable composition and a method for isolating a working area in a patient's mouth. The curable composition can include a borate-crosslinked polysiloxane, at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer comprising at least two polymerizable groups, and an initiator.

The inventive film clamping element (10) is held by a lip ring (14) and a vestibular ring (16), between which and possibly beyond which a film (12) extends. The film (12) and also the rings (14, 16) are elastically deformable, and it is provided that the film (12) comprises an attachment (24, 26) each at two positions opposite one another. Between these attachments (24, 26), at least one elastic band (20, 22) extends which is suitable to constrict the film (12) radially towards the inside.

[Object] Provided is means for being capable of simply and reliably preventing an excess dental cement from infiltrating into a gingival crevice when cement retention is applied in a dental treatment.

[Solving Means] There is provided a method for using an inflammation prevention sheet that prevents inflammation caused by an excess of a dental cement used in a dental treatment, the method including inserting a treatment tooth through a hole provided in an elastic sheet made of rubber and/or plastic, and setting the sheet so as to cover an entirety of a periodontal region of the treatment tooth, subsequently, covering the treatment tooth with a crown, and bonding together both with the dental cement, and thereafter, removing the inflammation prevention sheet to which an excess dental cement, which has escaped from a root of the crown, has adhered.

[Object] Provided is means for being capable of simply and reliably preventing an excess dental cement from infiltrating into a gingival crevice when cement retention is applied in a dental treatment.

[Solving Means] There is provided a method for using an inflammation prevention sheet that prevents inflammation caused by an excess of a dental cement used in a dental treatment, the method including inserting a treatment tooth through a hole provided in an elastic sheet made of rubber and/or plastic, and setting the sheet so as to cover an entirety of a periodontal region of the treatment tooth, subsequently, covering the treatment tooth with a crown, and bonding together both with the dental cement, and thereafter, removing the inflammation prevention sheet to which an excess dental cement, which has escaped from a root of the crown, has adhered.

Disclosed are various embodiments of a dental strip with elastic characteristics. The dental strip can be used for dental restoration procedure, particularly for maintaining a dry and clean area for one or more teeth. The dental strip can include a strip of elastic material. The strip has an elongated body between a first end and a second end. The elongated body comprises an upper surface and a lower surface that extend parallel between a first edge and a second edge. At least one of the upper and lower surfaces having a first edge strip and a second edge strip situated respectively along the first edge and the second edge. At least one of the first edge strip and the second edge strip being used to stabilize the strip at a position between at least two teeth of a human.

This invention presents an intraoral device for generation of contact perception between teeth, the device being configured for application to the upper or lower dental arch of a user and comprising a contact means (20, 20) configured to be associated with at least a portion of one to four posterior teeth (D1) of the upper or lower dental arch, the device (10) being configured to generate a perception of contact to the user upon the contact between the contact means (20, 20) and at least a portion of the opposing arch to at least a portion of one to four posterior teeth (D1), offering the option of an accessible intraoral device for practical use to the user, and that does not impair the mouth functions of the user during its use in the waking period. This invention further comprises a method of applying the device which allows the user to apply the device without assistance of a skilled professional, and a method for determining the thickness of the aforesaid device.

Dental surgical stents can be used to assist a dental surgeon. A hard tissue stent can include an access hole formed in one side and may be placed over one or more of the patient's teeth where the access hole is accurately aligned at a location for drilling to, for example, remove infection. Suction channels may be included in the stent to provide suction about the access hole to remove saliva, water, bone debris and the like, during the surgical procedure. A soft tissue stent may be placed over one or more of the patient's teeth, where the stent can include a mark positioned where the surgeon is to cut to create an access flap in the soft tissue. By keeping the flap attached to the semi-circular window of the soft tissue stent, the surgeon can more easily return the flap to the proper position.

A disposable, self-inflatable, matrix (tooth dam) used to form a temporary, removeable side wall for the placement of a tooth filling material. It has an array of three concavities (distal, central and proximal) formed in a polymer wrap that has a planar substrate sheet affixed across the front face of the wrap. The distal air chamber has a volume that equals or exceeds the combined volume of the central and proximal air chambers. Directly below the distal concavity on the inner face of the planar substrate is an adhesive region. When the distal air chamber is depressed, the air within inflates the other air chambers and it is retained in its compressed state by the adhesive region. The remaining air chambers press against one tooth and exert enough force to elastically secure the planar panel around the adjacent tooth. It prevents the tooth filling material from leaving the prepared tooth and entering the space between.