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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gottfried Rohner, Alstätten, CH;
Bruno Senn, Buchs, CH;
Assignee:
Ivoclar AG., Schaan, LI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 1/00 ; A61C 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 1/00 ; A61C 3/00 ;
Abstract
A dental apparatus has a display and an actuating device for selecting and activating operating programs for operating the dental apparatus. The display has a tooth schematic that is divided into indicator fields. The indicator fields may be distributed over a plurality of teeth so that each indicator field represents one tooth or may be used to indicate certain locations of an individual tooth.