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Disposable patient face mask
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Inventors: Zegarelli, Peter J.; Steinberg, Mitchell;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Calvert; John J.
Assistant Examiner: Moran; Katherine
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
A tissue face mask similar to that used by a dentist but placed in covering relation over the face of a patient preparatory to a dental procedure using a laser or similar light-emitting device in which mask there are shaping stays that are manually conformed to the facial features of the patient to prevent harm to the patient from the emitted light of the dental procedure. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
For patient preparation to provide protection against light emissions from a selected one of a laser, a bonding light and a bleaching light used in a dental procedure, an improved method of obviating a harmful consequence thereof comprising the steps of: (1) positioning prone on a support a patient facing upwardly in relation to a potential source of light transmissions; (2) using a face mask constituent with an upper color plastic light filter, a depending tissue lower portion, and at least two horizontally oriented spaced apart shape-conforming stays of malleable metal construction material on opposite sides of said plastic light filter; (3) placing said aforesaid constituent face mask in covering relation over said patient's face with said plastic light filter coincident with the eyes of said patient and said tissue portion over said patient's nose; and (4) manually shaping each said shape-conforming stay respectively to the underlying shapes of the forehead and nose of said patient; whereby harm is obviated by said interposed position of said face mask between said prone patient and said source of said light transmissions.
Description:
The present invention relates generally to protective face masks, and more particularly to face masks primarily for dentistry practice.
EXAMPLES OF THE PRIOR ART In U.
S.
Pat.
No.
5,303,423 for Face Shield/Mask Combination issued to Gazzara et al.
on Apr.
19, 1994, there is provided for use during medical procedures for the protection of medical personnel who, during such procedures, are subject to blood and other bodily fluids coming into contact with their face, a suitable face mask to obviate such contact, it being explained that such contact is dangerous because of the potential presence of the deadly AIDS virus or other harmful pathogens.
Thus, in dentistry practice, a face mask is used to obviate disease transmission between a patient and dentist, and the dentist, the user of the face mask, will dispose of the face mask between dental procedures to obviate disease transmission between patients
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