In present times toothbrushes are structured by a long handle, being one of its far ends the main head which guests the cleaning brush or bristles. Every given day the tooth brush user does the brushing task and does not have any other alternative that allows him/her to do an appropriate check of the state of his/her oral hygiene and denture condition, only the vision check, due to an occasional soreness or ache, that is performed inappropriately in front of a mirror with inappropriate lighting. On those cases, generally the affliction or damage has developed sufficiently to the point that a prevention action has been surpassed and a dentist intervention is required.
Nowadays, the different models of toothbrushes are built with different shapes to the head to improve the hygiene performance; also they incorporate discoloration of the bristles that indicates the peak performance of the toothbrush has come to an end. There are also some with part of its handle flexible making them more accessible to some oral areas. The bristles come with different thickness and with and shape to have different effects, in some cases the bristles come altogether and in different angles to clean your teeth and massage your gums at the same time. Some tooth brushes nowadays even come with an electrical motor that produce rotating movements to a group or bristles.
All this application are focused only to the structure and formation of the tooth brush, and they omit certain kind of activities and control that the user should have, that are determined activities and permit the user to take action as the result of a detailed and periodic observation.
The present invention offers an improved toothbrush, which optimizes oral hygiene and dental verification, one that offers an incorporated lamp, or led, and mirror at the same time in its structure, in is head, and in the opposite side of the bristles. When the lamp is turned on its light will allow you to verify the state of your dentures and your oral cavity, also permitting the user to verify by luminescence transparency and contrast the individual state of each tooth and with the mirror, the inner side of each dental piece, allowing you the prompt opportunity to prevent the formation of plaque, cavities and check the state of your gums.
The improved toothbrush use the best technology and does not physically affect in any way your oral cavity, incorporated by an exterior cylinder that accommodates and interior one.
The exterior cylinder incorporates on the far side of his inner structure, in a bas-relief, on the opposite side of the bristles, a mirror of the same dimension of the bas-relief therefore there will be no edges, this same cylinder on his opposite side incorporates an opening with an interior screw followed by a screwed ledge that permits the adjusted introduction of the internal cylinder, its opposite part ends in a circular centered opening. The internal cylinder its incorporated by a larger segment, that has a smaller diameter than the external one, only towards its middle part which afterwards thins abruptly, following into a tubular segment with a smaller diameter all to its far end that reckons with a centered circular opening. The far side of the internal cylinder has an opening in witch a battery is inserted and rests in a metallic segment that is fixated to the base of the main part that it is of a larger diameter, this metallic segment is connected to a cable that connects to a lamp that it is inserted into the circular centered opening of the smaller tubular portion, connected also to the lamp a second cable extends trough the smaller tubular portion into the larger one utilizing the smallest part of the diameter of the metallic segment fixated to the base of the larger part and continuing to the terminal opening of the interior cylinder in witch is anchored to a partial edge of the opening of the of the internal cylinder. The internal cylinder is introduced into the external one thought the far side opening until the small tubular end of the internal cylinder fits together with the centered circular opening of the external cylinder, at that moment the far side of the internal cylinder is tight and immobilized by the internal ring of the far side of the external cylinder, avoiding it to slide. By doing so, the lamp remains crowning the external far side of the item, this is obtained by passing though the centered circular opening of both cylinders.
To close the openings of both cylinders a cap is screwed on to the internal annular segment, which includes an external screw top, this cap is occupied transversally by an elongated cylindered body that stands out on both sides of the cap. The part that elongates to the interior of the item finishes on a metallic segment that when you finish screwing on it lies on top of the battery, that metallic portion has an elongation which connects and disconnects with the metallic portion that is located on the partial edge of the interior cylinder closing the electric circuit which activates the lamp.
This allows the user, once the lamp is on to see and check his/her oral cavity on detail and by transparency and translucency of the teeth, by positioning the lamp behind the teeth one can verify the existence of shadows, formation or accumulation of plaque or cavities on your teeth as well as in your gums.
By using the mirror, located at the opposite side of the bristles, one can verify the state of the inner side of the teeth by illuminating with the lamp.
To better explain this invention, a description will be made with the following figures:
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To turn on the lamp 21, the extension 12 is turned in a way that its lateral extension 14 makes contact with section 18 of body 3. By doing the inverse procedure the lamp is turned off.
Number | Date | Country | |
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60720336 | Sep 2005 | US |