ORAL CARE DEVICE HAVING SET OF COMPONENTS FOR SOFT TISSUE CLEANSING Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61C17/22 A46B15/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medical equipment and describes versions of oral care devices and a method for making a head for this device. According to the first version, the device comprises a handle, a head attached to the handle, first and second cleansing devices. The head has a body with a front surface and a back surface opposite the front surface. A socket is formed in the back surface of the body. The body comprises a bulb extending up from the sunk socket bottom with the socket surrounding the bulb. The first cleaning device is formed of an elastic material for cleansing oral soft tissues and provided inside the socket with the body bulb extending through a central hole of the first cleansing device. The second cleansing is formed of an elastic material for cleansing oral soft tissues with the second cleansing device is provided on the body bulb of the structure. The second cleansing device is formed in an upper surface of the bulb for cleansing oral soft tissues and projects therefrom. The body is made of solid plastic. A method for making the head of the device involves moulding the body of the head of solid plastic, injecting a first dose of thermoplastic elastomer through a first port into the socket of the body of the head to form the first cleansing device and injecting a second dose of thermoplastic elastomer through a second port onto the body of the head to form the second cleansing device.

EFFECT: inventions provide the comfort and effective clearance of bacteria from the tongue and other soft tissues by penetration into narrow oral spaces and sockets.

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