DENTAL TWEEZERS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A61B17/30 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used for treatment of obturation (sealing) the tooth root canals by a hand tool, as well as for fixation of small-sized ISO - 06, 08, 10, 15 tool for search, detection and opening of narrow root canals. During root canal therapy, dental tweezers are used with two spring-loaded jaws with gripping jaws curved in one direction at their working ends, with transverse dimensions smaller than the jaws transverse dimensions. The tweezers additionaly include an element for additional hand tool attachement: spreader or plugger, wherein the element is placed on the end surface side of the tweezers and is designed as a rigidly fixed cylindrical cup or slot with a hole in the tweezers and a fastener for the hand tool located therein, at that, the cylindrical cup and slot are located on the tweezers so that the additional hand tool placed therein is attached at an angle of 100-145 to the jaw horizontal direction and in a direction opposite to the bent gripping jaws.

EFFECT: application of tweezers reduces the time of root canal filling and improves user experience.

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