Patent ID: 9636198
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A61C

Claim:
1. A dental whitening system that is adapted to be positioned between a person's lips and teeth for accelerating a whitening of the person's teeth, the dental whitening system comprising: a dental tray shaped to fit over the person's teeth, the dental tray having an inner surface, the dental tray further comprising a bite tab that extends rearward from the inner surface, the bite tab having an upper surface and a lower surface configured to be clamped between the person's teeth for holding the dental tray in the person's mouth such that that the inner surface is positioned against the person's teeth; a removable heating component that includes a heating plate that includes a heat generator for generating heat; and a heating component recess formed in the dental tray opposite the inner surface, the heating component recess having an annular lip that functions to frictionally engage the removable heating component for removably retaining the heating plate within the heating component recess, such that heat from the removably heating component is transmitted through the dental tray to the person's teeth.