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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth L. Rosenblood, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert G. Hayman, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Assignee:
Discus Dental Impressions, Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/724 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/724 ;
Abstract
A dual action tongue scraper provides either a hard scrape or a soft scrape of the tongue, as desired. A hard scraping surface and a soft scraping surface are formed along at least one of the edges of a strip of flexible material. A user bends the strip of flexible material such that generally only one of the hard scraping surface and the soft scraping surface contacts the user's tongue at a given time during scraping.