Dentsply Sirona Inc.

Dentsply Canada Ltd.

Dentsply International Inc.

Vdw Gmbh

Naim Karazivan

Paul Richard Pierson

Thomas Ertl

Hui Lu

Dustin Gaidos

Michael Metz

Andrew J Coste

Emmanuel Montini

Daniel M Ammon, Jr

Christos Angeletakis

Yvan Mimeault

Michel Doucet

Vincent Shotton

Yves Berube-Lauziere

Sophie Bernier

Marc Levesque

Francois Ayotte

Joseph M Gordon

Luke Hagan

Kenneth Focht

Christoph Weber

Kenneth R Guaragno

David Copeland

Andrew Burke

Thomas Ruth

William Kane

Leonid Silverman

James Sirkis

Alexander Savic

Peter Max Coveleski

Gene Novak

François Ayotte

Dan Ammon

Mohamed Moutawakil

Paul R Pierson

A light curing impression system comprising a light emitting tray that precisely distributes an optimal amount of curing light energy to internal, external and extra oral portions of the dental arch to cure impression material. The light curing impression system generally includes an LED light source, a light emitting impression tray, an activation module and impression material.

Light curing dental system

A light curing dental system comprising a light emitting tray that precisely distributes an optimal amount of curing light energy to internal, external and extra oral portions of the dental arch to cure a dental material. The light curing dental system generally includes a light source, a light emitting dental tray, an activation module and a photocurable dental material.

A dental probe for determining the vitality of a tooth, comprising a light emitter and a light receiver, wherein the light emitter emits light from an emitter surface adapted to be positioned on a hard dental surface of a tooth, wherein the light receiver collects light incident on a receiver surface adapted to be positioned on a hard dental surface of the tooth so that the optical path of the light emitted from the light emitter passes at least through a portion of the pulp chamber of the tooth. The light receiver includes a light shielding spacer member adjacent to the optical path for establishing and maintaining a distance of at least 50 &#x3bc;m between the gum line and the optical path at the receiver surface. The light emitter further a light shielding spacer member adjacent to the optical path for establishing and maintaining a distance between the gum line and the optical path at the emitter surface, wherein the light shielding spacer member establishes and maintains a distance of at least 50 &#x3bc;m between the gum line and the optical path at the emitter surface, and in that an apical-coronal diameter of the light emitter surface and the light receiver surface is at most 1200 &#x3bc;m in the direction normal to the optical path.

Dental probe

Described herein is a dental material applicator system comprising a segmented capsule and handpiece. The capsule separately holds a powder and a liquid such that upon activation in the handpiece by an operator, the powder and liquid are mixed into a paste. The operator then triggers the handpiece so that the mixed paste is extruded.

Dental material delivery system

A three-dimensional printing system including a feed source of uncured filled resin material, a print head configured to apply discrete layers of a composition including upconversion phosphors, and a radiation source configured to irradiate layers of uncured filled resin material and deposited layers of the composition is provided. A method of three dimensionally printing a dental article is also provided.

Three-dimensional printing system and methods of use

Light emitting device

A method of diagnosing optical inhomogeneity of a volume scattering object is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a substance coated with phosphorous materials, adapting the substrate to a surface of a volume scattering object to be diagnosed, and trans-illuminating the volume scattering object with radiation. A dental tool including a substrate is also provided. The substrate includes a transparent flexible film or metallic foil with an applied coating of upconversion phosphors, afterglow particles or both.

Method of diagnosing optical inhomogeneity of a volume scattering object and a dental tool

A multi-directional handpiece that includes a motor drive extending along and configured for rotation about a body axis, the motor drive having: a motor gearing at a proximal end of the motor drive; and a file gearing in engagement with the motor gearing for transferring the rotational and axial movement to a workpiece; and a housing for the workpiece; and wherein through rotation of the motor drive, the workpiece moves in an axial oscillating motion while being rotated.

Multi-directional handpiece

Impression material tray

A method of attaching a dental article to the surface of a tooth includes providing the dental article and applying a coating including upconversion phosphors to a surface of the dental article. The method also includes applying a dental cement composition to the surface of the tooth and placing the dental article on the surface of the tooth such that the coating is adjacent the dental cement composition. The dental cement composition includes a polymerizable resin and a photoinitiator and is substantially free of upconversion phosphors. The method further includes irradiating the coating with a radiation source that emits radiation at a pre-determined fixed wavelength that causes the upconversion phosphors to emit radiation at an activation wavelength of the dental cement composition photoinitiator such that the dental cement composition cures in a region adjacent the coating and removing remaining uncured dental cement composition outside the dental article from the tooth.

Method of attaching a dental article to the surface of the tooth

A luminescent coating is disclosed that is used to dimensionally control the curing of a photocurable agent placed in close contact with the coating. The coating is applied at the interface of structures, such as brackets and prosthetics, or may be applied directly on a curable material for use in 3D printing, at the location where bonding material is needed to be cured. The luminescent coating irradiates from its structure the curing radiations necessary to photopolymerize the resin in response to a first radiation irradiated on its structure of a different wavelength.

Dental compositions containing upconversion phosphors and methods of use

There is provided a method for detecting interproximal tooth defects such as caries by injecting light at one or more wavelengths into a tooth and detecting reflected/diffracted light or emitted fluorescence. The detected light intensity is characteristic of a healthy or diseased tooth in the interproximal area.

Interproximal tooth defects detection

The present invention relates to a tooth coating applicator (), typically in the form of a strip (), and a method for applying a dental sealant to a surface of a tooth (T), and specifically to the interproximal surface (S) thereof. The applicator () is elongated and is adapted to be typically inserted into an interproximal space (I) defined between a pair of adjacent teeth (T, T') and to be gradually slid against a dental surface of one of the teeth. The applicator () comprises a series of substrates () for generally successively removing debris and deposits from the interproximal dental surface (S), etching () the dental surface (S), washing () the dental surface (S), drying () the dental surface (S), carrying () the sealing agent and applying the sealing agent to the dental surface (S), exerting pressure () on the dental surface (S) during the hardening of the sealing agent, and polishing () the dental surface (S) and its cured sealing agent.

Interproximal tooth coating applicator

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Repentigny, Canada

Naim Karazivan