DEVICE FOR COMBINED THERAPEUTIC AND STIMULATIVE TREATMENT OF THE GUMS

摘要

A device for delivering an irrigant and/or a medicament fluid to the gingival sulcus comprises an elongated handle member (12) terminating in a flexible tip portion (14) provided with aperture(s), the tip being connected to a fluid reservoir (32) via a conduit (20) and operable to discharge the fluid through the apertures only on the application of pressure to the reservoir and/or opening of a normally close valve or apertures in the tip by flexing the tip, e.g. by pressing same against a tooth. In preferred embodiments, the handle is tubular, the distal end portion thereof comprising the fluid reservoir. IMAGE