Ablation probe tips (108, 148, 320, 360) and physical and virtual stents (110) for use in tooth bud ablation procedures that result in tooth agenesis as well as tooth bud ablation methods are described herein.

A dental pliers and method for loosening teeth from an underlying bone and gum. Pivotally connected handles which each include a user grasping portion. The first handle terminates in an arcuately extending beak exhibiting a narrowed blade edge. The second handle terminates in an opposing pad support with an ergonomic configuration substantially matching that of the patient's gum line. Upon positioning the support along a buccal location at or below the gum line, and upon aligning the beak in abutting fashion against a lingual surface of a tooth, the pad support defines a center point of rotation proximate to an edge location of the gum line and bone. The handles are subsequently rotated in an outward fashion away from the patient's gum line to separate the tooth and its roots from the patient's gum line and bone.

A dental pliers and method for loosening teeth from an underlying bone and gum. Pivotally connected handles which each include a user grasping portion. The first handle terminates in an arcuately extending beak exhibiting a narrowed blade edge. The second handle terminates in an opposing pad support with an ergonomic configuration substantially matching that of the patient's gum line. Upon positioning the support along a buccal location at or below the gum line, and upon aligning the beak in abutting fashion against a lingual surface of a tooth, the pad support defines a center point of rotation proximate to an edge location of the gum line and bone. The handles are subsequently rotated in an outward fashion away from the patient's gum line to separate the tooth and its roots from the patient's gum line and bone.

A dental instrument includes a handle and an extension portion, the extension portion has a frontal protrusion that is used to hang an elastic traction ligature. An impacted tooth traction device includes a first bracket for being fastened to an impacted tooth, and a second bracket for being fastened to an anchor body, and the aforementioned elastic traction ligature that is used to connect the first bracket with the second bracket. A method for installing the impacted tooth traction device includes: fastening the first bracket to the impacted tooth, fastening the second bracket to the anchor body, and to connect the elastic traction ligature to the first and the second brackets after the elastic traction ligature is pulled to a certain length.

A dental instrument includes a handle and an extension portion, the extension portion has a frontal protrusion that is used to hang an elastic traction ligature. An impacted tooth traction device includes a first bracket for being fastened to an impacted tooth, and a second bracket for being fastened to an anchor body, and the aforementioned elastic traction ligature that is used to connect the first bracket with the second bracket. A method for installing the impacted tooth traction device includes: fastening the first bracket to the impacted tooth, fastening the second bracket to the anchor body, and to connect the elastic traction ligature to the first and the second brackets after the elastic traction ligature is pulled to a certain length.

A dental forceps for removal of rear molars having first and second handles which are pivotally connected. Forward distal ends of the handles terminate, respectively, in a first handle support with an end most pad exhibiting a three dimensional and rounded surface profile extending laterally to one side, as well as a second handle terminating in a correspondingly angled beak. The arrangement of the pad and beak are such that, upon setting in position at the desired molar by placing the rounded and width extending pad support upon the gum of the patient between the molar and the cheek and concurrently placing the pointed beak on the lingual side of the molar, an outward rotating force is then exerted on the handles to roll (or rotate) the pad and beak such that the molar is forcibly extracted.

A dental forceps for removal of rear molars having first and second handles which are pivotally connected. Forward distal ends of the handles terminate, respectively, in a first handle support with an end most pad exhibiting a three dimensional and rounded surface profile extending laterally to one side, as well as a second handle terminating in a correspondingly angled beak. The arrangement of the pad and beak are such that, upon setting in position at the desired molar by placing the rounded and width extending pad support upon the gum of the patient between the molar and the cheek and concurrently placing the pointed beak on the lingual side of the molar, an outward rotating force is then exerted on the handles to roll (or rotate) the pad and beak such that the molar is forcibly extracted.

A forceps having relative pivoting forceps joined by connectors and jaws retractable by action of a helical spring in a chamber inside the connectors of the two forceps. A passage from the spring chamber outward to the exterior periphery of a first connector and opening in a space between the two jaws of the two forceps when the forceps and their jaws are retracted, permitting entry of cleaning materials into the interior of the forceps. The jaws being shaped and the passage into the interior of the forceps being so located and shaped that the passage into the interior of the forceps is blocked by at least one of the jaws when the forceps are gripped and the jaws are toward each other.

A forceps having relative pivoting forceps joined by connectors and jaws retractable by action of a helical spring in a chamber inside the connectors of the two forceps. A passage from the spring chamber outward to the exterior periphery of a first connector and opening in a space between the two jaws of the two forceps when the forceps and their jaws are retracted, permitting entry of cleaning materials into the interior of the forceps. The jaws being shaped and the passage into the interior of the forceps being so located and shaped that the passage into the interior of the forceps is blocked by at least one of the jaws when the forceps are gripped and the jaws are toward each other.

A hand-held gripping device that allows one of a surgeon, a dentist, and an orthodontist to reach interior portions of a person's anatomy, includes a gripping portion having a pair of jaws movable relative to each other between fully clamped and fully opened positions thereof, a handle portion spaced apart from the jaw portion by a bendable central portion that has a hollow, bendable corrugated with at least one cord extending therethrough.