Claims
- 1. A process for promoting healing and controlling bleeding in dental extraction sites comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing sterile cotton gauze dental packs having sizes and shapes generally conforming to the sizes and shapes of dental extraction sockets of a patient;
- (b) inserting said dental packs to within said dental extraction sockets of said patient such that said packs conform to the extraction sockets; and
- (c) providing sufficient force to said dental packs to accomplish hemostasis by direct pressure within said extraction sockets.
- 2. The process of claim 1 wherein said dental packs are generally spherical in configuration and have differing diameters to accommodate different sized extraction sockets.
- 3. The process of claim 1 wherein said dental packs are oblong and have differing diameters and lengths to accommodate multiple extraction sockets.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/072,830 filed Jun. 7, 1993, which in turn is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/923,665 filed on Aug. 3, 1992, both now abandoned.
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Continuation in Parts (2)
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