Kaltenbach + Voigt Gmbh

Kaltenbach & Voigt Gmbh & Co.

Kaltenbach & Voight, Gmbh & Co.

Hans Heckenberger

Hans-Dieter Wiek

Sven Erdmann

Bernd Gugel

Alexander Hack

Herbert Lott

Uwe Mohn

André Hackel

Frank Saur

Eugen Eibofner

Johann Stempfle

Ernst Strohmaier

Stefan Beier

Andre Hackel

Klaus Weber

Armin Imhof

A device for disinfecting, sterilizing and/or maintaining medical, especially dental, instruments comprises a maintenance and cleaning chamber for accommodating instruments to be conditioned and means for supplying different cleaning or maintenance media for cleaning, disinfecting or sterilizing and/or maintaining the instruments in subsequent steps. The start times of the conditioning cycles for the different instruments are staggered.

Device for disinfecting, sterilizing and/or maintaining medical, especially dental, instruments

A dental system may trans-illuminate teeth using a light source for producing examination radiation by directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined. An optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation may be acquired. The light source may include a light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element that faces the tooth to be examined being embedded in a transparent. The light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element may be embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.

Dental system for trans-illumination of teeth

A dental system may transilluminate teeth using a light source for producing examination radiation by directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined. An optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation may be acquired. The light source may include a light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element that faces the tooth to be examined. Light-guiding and/or light-deflecting elements may be embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.

A device for disinfecting, sterilizing, and/or maintaining medical, in particular dental instruments. The device is optimized in various areas, facilitating the fully automatic, reliable, and reproducible preparation of dental instruments.

Device for disinfecting, sterilizing, and/or maintaining medical instruments and method for identifying the occupancy of an instrument holder in such device

A conditioning device for disinfecting, sterilizing and/or maintaining medical, especially dental, instruments comprises a distributor unit for supplying cleaning or maintenance media to the instruments, said distributor unit having respective inlets for every medium, said inlet being connected to a support for an instrument via a valve. Every valve comprises a sealing element which can be brought into a valve-opening position by means of the actuating element of the distributor unit which can be selectively positioned.

A device for the disinfection, sterilization and/or maintenance of medical, in particular dental instruments. The device is optimized in various areas, facilitating the fully automatic, reliable and reproducible preparation of dental instruments.

Device for the disinfection, sterilization and/or maintenance of medical in particular dental, instruments

In a dental device for the investigation of the optical properties of tooth tissue, in particular for the recognition of caries, plaque, bacterial infection, concretions and tartar, having a generator for generating an excitation radiation, which is to be directed onto a tooth tissue region to be investigated, a radiation detector and a radiation evaluator for the detection and evaluation of a response radiation arising from the irradiated tooth tissue region as response to the irradiation, and an indicator means for the indication of a measurement result determined by the evaluation means on the basis of the detected response radiation, the excitation radiation generator, the radiation detector and at least also the indicator being integrated in a dental handpiece.

Dental device for the investigation of the optical properties of tooth tissue

Medical diagnostic instrument

The invention relates to a medical or dental-medical instrument () having a memory element () for identification and/or operational parameter data. IN order to extend the range of possible applications of the instrument, the memory element () is constituted for the overwriting of the data by other data.

Medical or dental instrument and/or supply unit and/or care unit and/or system for the medical or dental instrument

In a medicinal or dental hand instrument ( ) comprising a hand piece ( ) and a handle ( ) arranged on the hand piece ( ), an outlet opening ( ), arranged on the front side of the handle ( ), for the outlet of an abrasive therapeutic agent and a transport fluid, and a coupling terminal ( ) for coupling the hand instrument ( ) to a supply line for at least one transport fluid, in particular water and/or air, wherein the coupling terminal ( ) is a coupling component ( ) of a coupling ( ), the coupling component ( ) is arranged on an insert piece ( ) which can be plugged into a plug-in socket or plug-in recess ( ) and in its end zone, facing away from the flow, has one or more coaxially or paraxially disposed, sealed pipe socket couplings ( ), which each connect a feed line ( ) for the transport fluid to an ongoing feed line ( ).

Medicinal or dental hand instrument

Device for the recognition of caries, plaque or bacterial infection of teeth, the device having in substance a generator (4) for the generation of an excitation radiation (6) which with the aid of a dental handpiece (1) can be directed at a tooth (8) to be investigated, and a set of differently formed exchangeable emission and acquisition devices (2) for the irradiation of the tooth to be investigated with the excitation radiation (6) in dependence upon the surface of the tooth (8) to be treated in each case and for acquiring a fluorescence radiation (7) excited at the irradiated tooth (8). The individual exchangeable emission and acquisition devices (2) can each be removably coupled with the dental handpiece (1) and include a plurality of individual emission fibers (24a) and detection fibers (24b).

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