US3781994A - Arrangement for separating an area of operation or treatment in the oral cavity - Google Patents

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US3781994A
US3781994A US00222892A US3781994DA US3781994A US 3781994 A US3781994 A US 3781994A US 00222892 A US00222892 A US 00222892A US 3781994D A US3781994D A US 3781994DA US 3781994 A US3781994 A US 3781994A
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  • ABSTRACT A device for separating a larger or smaler area, i.e., teeth, of the oral cavity for dental treatment consisting of a dam of an elastic material intended to be applied over said area and to be fixed in its position by a streching means, whereby said dam is surrounded by and connected to a inflatable frame piece.
  • the present invention relates to a device for separating a larger or smaler area of the oral cavity for preferably dental treatment consisting of an elastic material dam slipped on to the area in question and held applied by a stretching frame.
  • rubber-dam technique is frequently used in dental practice by certain types of procedures. This technique is used by for instance root canal treatment and restorative therapy in order to separate a treatment area in the mouth in such a way that it makes possible aseptic work with no contamination from the saliva.
  • a rubber-dam is normally used and applied by slipping a punched hole in the dam over the tooth or teeth to be treated. The rubber-dam is then held in place in the cervical area by special rubber-dam clamps, ligatures or the like, and is consequently an effective barrier for contamination with saliva in the treatment area.
  • the tooth that thus protrudes out of the rubber-dam may also be treated with antibacterial agents in such a way as to obtain a sterile working field.
  • the free areas of the rubber dam are usually supplied with elastic retention devices that are placed around the ears or the back of the head of the patient. It is easily understood that such a conventional fixation with a following streching of the free ends of the rubber dam for instance around the ears of the patient can be both bothersome for the operator and uncomfortable for the patient. Moreover, from the operators point of view it can be unsatisfactory as touching unsterile objects outside the operation field makes impossible a strict aseptic technique. In order to partly eliminate the abovementioned disadvantages an other type of retention mechanism has been used in which the free ends of the rubber dam are streched over a streching frame with sharp pointed corners. It has been found, however, that also this type of stretching frame may lead to considerable inconvenience as its sharp points are very irritating for the patient.
  • the bacteria-containing spray mist formed by the use of water-cooled, air-driven drills by the preparation of infected hard'tissues is not evacuated by the use of ordinary'rubber dam types but is inhaled by the operator and assisting personnel with a risk for infections in the respiratory tracts as a consequence.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device of this type that can be easily applied and that when applied to a great extent eliminates the abovementioned disadvantages. This is obtained by the device described in the attached claims.
  • FIG. 1 shows a frontal projection of the device according to the invention in an applied position
  • FIG. 2 shows a partially out side projection of the device shown in FIG. 1.
  • the teeth to be treated in the actual example three teeth are slipped through small openings in the rubber dam l whereafter the rubber dam is moved down over the teeth to the cervical area where it is retained in the conventional way by means of springy so'called rubber dam clamps or ligatures. Because of the elasticity of the rubber dam an effective sealing is obtained against the teeth 6. Thereafter the frame piece 2 is inflated by compressed air or such through the nipple 3 in such a way that the rubber dam is streched out forming a bowl or funnel.
  • the device constructed according to the invention is soft and flexible and therefore causes a minimum of inconvenience when applied to the patient.
  • the flexibility of the described device makes easy such a procedure. No retention mechanisms need be removed and the whole device may be easily pushed aside if desired. Furthermore the treatment area on the inside of the frame piece 2 can be readily connected to an evacuation device (for instance a saliva ejector) through the nipple 5 which easily and effectively removes an overflow of different liquids and at the same times serves as a drainage for bacteria-containing air (aerosol).
  • an evacuation device for instance a saliva ejector
  • the inflatable frame piece 2 may be preferably made in one piece with the rubber dam or the rubber dam may be applied in a known manner on the back side of it.
  • the frame piece 2 may also be made to only partially enclose the rubber dam edges for instance forming a horse-shoe shape.
  • a device for separating a region of the mouth during dental treatment comprising a dam formed of a sheet of elastic material having at least one hole to be slipped over the teeth and area of said mouth to be treated, and a hollow frame integral with said sheet surrounding at least a portion of the periphery of said sheet, said frame being extendible to stretch said sheet to fix said sheet in position in said mouth.
  • conduit means communicating withthe interior of said frame by which said frame may be inflated.

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US4240789A (en) * 1978-09-12 1980-12-23 Rosenthaler Harold B Dental appliance
US4261697A (en) * 1980-02-15 1981-04-14 Newitter David A Evacuating rubber dam frame
US4721465A (en) * 1987-03-17 1988-01-26 Barasz Steven G Dental dam with integral deformable frame
US4828491A (en) * 1988-03-24 1989-05-09 Aukland Group, Inc. Unitary preassembled disposable intra-oral rubber dam device
US4969473A (en) * 1987-02-13 1990-11-13 Bothwell Susan F Dental patient face and neck shield
US5011409A (en) * 1990-01-11 1991-04-30 Aukland (Usa), Inc. Polyurethane intraoral dam
US5727565A (en) * 1990-09-28 1998-03-17 Wood; Deloris Gray Kissing shield
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US6093022A (en) * 1998-11-10 2000-07-25 Swallow; Stephen T. Dental dam with integral clamp
DE29906369U1 (de) * 1999-04-09 2000-08-17 Brandes, Julian, Dr., 50739 Köln Zahnärztliche Abschirmvorrichtung zum Abschirmen eines Zahnes
US6293280B1 (en) 1995-05-26 2001-09-25 Deloris Gray Wood Kissing shield and method of use thereof
GB2376895A (en) * 2001-04-18 2002-12-31 Russell Sullman Medical suction device
US20030190584A1 (en) * 2001-04-05 2003-10-09 Heasley John Martin Rubber Dams With Operative Inserts Which Isolate Anatomical Structures by Effectively Resisting External Vector Forces of Displacement
US6648642B1 (en) * 1997-02-10 2003-11-18 Domonkos Horvath Rubber dam
US20040126739A1 (en) * 2002-12-31 2004-07-01 John Heasley Rubber dam frames with improved retraction, stability, and safety characteristics
US20040170945A1 (en) * 2003-02-27 2004-09-02 John Heasley General field isolation rubber dams without operative inserts which isolate the dental alveolar arch for dental treatment
US6789799B2 (en) 1995-05-26 2004-09-14 Deloris Gray Wood Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US20040229189A1 (en) * 2003-05-13 2004-11-18 Zirc Company Symmetrical rubber dam having a tooth gripping orifice
US20060278239A1 (en) * 1999-12-17 2006-12-14 Deloris Wood Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US20070231773A1 (en) * 2006-03-31 2007-10-04 Curtis Pontynen Methods, Devices, Systems and Kits for Isolating Teeth
US20090081611A1 (en) * 2007-09-26 2009-03-26 Indentiv, Llc Methods, devices, systems, assemblies, and kits for tissue retraction in an oral cavity
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US20100233652A1 (en) * 2009-03-12 2010-09-16 Cofre Gaete Maria Jose Buccal Device for Isolating the Operating Field
GB2471904A (en) * 2009-07-17 2011-01-19 Edward Boyle Single piece rubber dental dam
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USD763444S1 (en) 2014-03-14 2016-08-09 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
USD792590S1 (en) 2015-07-21 2017-07-18 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
US9888981B2 (en) 2016-04-01 2018-02-13 Larry Travis Haws Interdental laterally expansive wedge
US9901332B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2018-02-27 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device and method
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US4240789A (en) * 1978-09-12 1980-12-23 Rosenthaler Harold B Dental appliance
US4261697A (en) * 1980-02-15 1981-04-14 Newitter David A Evacuating rubber dam frame
US4969473A (en) * 1987-02-13 1990-11-13 Bothwell Susan F Dental patient face and neck shield
US4721465A (en) * 1987-03-17 1988-01-26 Barasz Steven G Dental dam with integral deformable frame
US4828491A (en) * 1988-03-24 1989-05-09 Aukland Group, Inc. Unitary preassembled disposable intra-oral rubber dam device
WO1989009032A1 (en) * 1988-03-24 1989-10-05 Aukland (U.S.A.), Inc. Unitary preassembled disposable intra-oral rubber dam device
US5011409A (en) * 1990-01-11 1991-04-30 Aukland (Usa), Inc. Polyurethane intraoral dam
US5787895A (en) * 1990-09-28 1998-08-04 Wood; Deloris Gray Kissing shield and method of use thereof
US5727565A (en) * 1990-09-28 1998-03-17 Wood; Deloris Gray Kissing shield
US6789799B2 (en) 1995-05-26 2004-09-14 Deloris Gray Wood Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US6293280B1 (en) 1995-05-26 2001-09-25 Deloris Gray Wood Kissing shield and method of use thereof
US6648642B1 (en) * 1997-02-10 2003-11-18 Domonkos Horvath Rubber dam
DE29813627U1 (de) * 1998-07-30 2000-01-20 Ahlers, Marcus Oliver, Dr.med.dent., 20251 Hamburg Kofferdamhalter
US6299446B1 (en) 1998-07-30 2001-10-09 M. Oliver Ahlers Rubber dam holder
US6093022A (en) * 1998-11-10 2000-07-25 Swallow; Stephen T. Dental dam with integral clamp
DE29906369U1 (de) * 1999-04-09 2000-08-17 Brandes, Julian, Dr., 50739 Köln Zahnärztliche Abschirmvorrichtung zum Abschirmen eines Zahnes
US20060278239A1 (en) * 1999-12-17 2006-12-14 Deloris Wood Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US7086646B2 (en) 1999-12-17 2006-08-08 Deloris Gray Wood Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US20050040595A1 (en) * 1999-12-17 2005-02-24 Wood Deloris Gray Kissing shield game and method of use thereof
US20060177796A9 (en) * 2001-04-05 2006-08-10 Heasley John M Rubber Dams With Operative Inserts Which Isolate Anatomical Structures by Effectively Resisting External Vector Forces of Displacement
US20030190584A1 (en) * 2001-04-05 2003-10-09 Heasley John Martin Rubber Dams With Operative Inserts Which Isolate Anatomical Structures by Effectively Resisting External Vector Forces of Displacement
GB2376895A (en) * 2001-04-18 2002-12-31 Russell Sullman Medical suction device
US7018206B2 (en) 2002-12-31 2006-03-28 John Heasley Rubber dam frames with improved retraction, stability, and safety characteristics
US20040126739A1 (en) * 2002-12-31 2004-07-01 John Heasley Rubber dam frames with improved retraction, stability, and safety characteristics
US20040170945A1 (en) * 2003-02-27 2004-09-02 John Heasley General field isolation rubber dams without operative inserts which isolate the dental alveolar arch for dental treatment
US7044738B2 (en) 2003-05-13 2006-05-16 Duane Edward Cox Symmetrical rubber dam having a tooth gripping orifice
US20040229189A1 (en) * 2003-05-13 2004-11-18 Zirc Company Symmetrical rubber dam having a tooth gripping orifice
US20070231773A1 (en) * 2006-03-31 2007-10-04 Curtis Pontynen Methods, Devices, Systems and Kits for Isolating Teeth
WO2007115144A3 (en) * 2006-03-31 2008-09-04 Indentiv Llc Methods, devices, systems and kits for isolating teeth
US20100196848A1 (en) * 2006-10-04 2010-08-05 Berbert Fabio Luis Camargo Villeia Dentistry Isolator
WO2008040107A3 (en) * 2006-10-04 2009-08-13 Berbert Fabio Luis Camargo Vil Dentristy isolator
US9387054B2 (en) 2007-09-26 2016-07-12 Ultradent Products, Inc. Methods, devices, systems, assemblies, and kits for tissue retraction in an oral cavity
US10307049B2 (en) 2007-09-26 2019-06-04 Ultradent Products, Inc. Methods, devices, systems, assemblies, and kits for tissue retraction in an oral cavity
US20090081611A1 (en) * 2007-09-26 2009-03-26 Indentiv, Llc Methods, devices, systems, assemblies, and kits for tissue retraction in an oral cavity
US8162662B2 (en) 2009-03-12 2012-04-24 Cofre Gaete Maria Jose Buccal device for isolating the operating field
US20100233652A1 (en) * 2009-03-12 2010-09-16 Cofre Gaete Maria Jose Buccal Device for Isolating the Operating Field
GB2471904A (en) * 2009-07-17 2011-01-19 Edward Boyle Single piece rubber dental dam
US9901332B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2018-02-27 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device and method
US10016258B2 (en) 2013-03-15 2018-07-10 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek and lip expansion device and method
USD820445S1 (en) 2014-03-14 2018-06-12 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
USD763444S1 (en) 2014-03-14 2016-08-09 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
USD761958S1 (en) 2014-03-14 2016-07-19 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
USD737964S1 (en) 2014-03-14 2015-09-01 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
USD792590S1 (en) 2015-07-21 2017-07-18 Ultradent Products, Inc. Cheek retractor device
US9888981B2 (en) 2016-04-01 2018-02-13 Larry Travis Haws Interdental laterally expansive wedge
USD964566S1 (en) 2019-06-03 2022-09-20 Ultradent Products, Inc. Dental retraction device
USD914214S1 (en) 2019-06-03 2021-03-23 Ultradent Products, Inc. Dental retraction device
US20230218369A1 (en) * 2020-06-08 2023-07-13 Kelly LUCAS DDS Systems, devices, and methods for providing inflatable isolation and negative environment field
US20220071748A1 (en) * 2020-09-09 2022-03-10 Loma Linda University Evacuation dam frame
US11571285B2 (en) * 2020-09-09 2023-02-07 Loma Linda University Evacuation dam frame
US20230285129A1 (en) * 2020-09-09 2023-09-14 Loma Linda University Evacuation dam frame
US20220183791A1 (en) * 2020-12-10 2022-06-16 Ivoclar Vivadent Ag Film Tensioning Element
US20230000602A1 (en) * 2021-07-01 2023-01-05 Ivoclar Vivadent Ag Suction Ring
US12004917B1 (en) * 2023-05-01 2024-06-11 King Faisal University Mandibular quadridam

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