General field isolation rubber dams without operative inserts which isolate the dental alveolar arch for dental treatment

摘要

A general field isolation rubber dam with particular applicability in the field of dentistry which is preferably composed of an elastic membrane with a slit-like central opening prepared in the dam through which a grouping of teeth and their associated soft tissues are brought into the dental operating field in order to perform dental treatment. The dams of this disclosure lack an integral retractive element, but rely instead on externally applied clamps and devices to retain and retract the membrane around an operative site. These dams may either have a mechanism for the bonding of manually applied barrier adhesives to perfect the moisture seal around an operative site or alternatively may have integrally applied barrier adhesives applied to directly adhere the rubber dam membrane to the oral tissues.