Dental device for cheek retraction and saliva collection - has pair of cheek retractor elements each comprising hook part for engaging patients lips

摘要

The dental apparatus, has a pair of cheek retractor elements each comprising a hook part for engaging a patient's lips at a respective side of the mouth and a shank part extending from each hook part outwardly away from each other and the patient's mouth entirely exteriorly. A connector is on an outer region of each shank part remote from the patient's mouth, and a resiliently contractile element extends between and is connected to the connector for yieldably urging the latter apart. The contractile element is curved in use to extend in spaced relation exteriorly about the patient's mouth and present no obstacle to the dental operator.