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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 1/00 ;
Abstract
A dental light curing device with an expanded functionality for diagnosing abnormalities by observation of native or induced fluorescence in the oral cavity. An optical assembly consisting of a short pass or band pass filter and a spacer is applied to the output distal end of the dental light curing device. A long pass filter is applied to the attenuating filter or the spacer is made as a long pass filter. The diagnosing sites can be seen through the spacer.