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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2000
Klaus M. Irion, Liptingen, DE;
Rainer Hahn, Tübingen, DE;
Klaus M. Irion, Liptingen, DE;
Rainer Hahn, Tübingen, DE;
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Abstract
A light application unit for a combined photodynamic diagnosis and photodynamic therapy of non-malignant diseases of a parodontium and a tooth of a living being having administered a pharmaceutical preparation allowing the photodynamic diagnosis and the photodynamic therapy comprises a light source, a focusing unit for focusing light emitted by the light source, at least one element arrangeable in a light beam path of the light, and at least one wave guide for transmitting the light from the light source to a distal emitting end, the wave guide is configured rigidly in at least a distal handling end section thereof and being curved in a distal end section.