Patent ID: 8631808
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
1. A toothpick, comprising: (a) a main body that includes a longitudinal length and wherein said main body includes a first end and an opposite second end, and wherein said main body is not hollow, and wherein, during manufacture of said toothpick, said first end includes a conical shape, thereto, and wherein, during further manufacture, additional material is removed from said conical end; and (b) wherein, during said further manufacture, a sloping curvature that begins a predetermined distance away from said first end at an upper exterior surface of said main body is provided, and wherein said sloping curvature progressively extends deeper into said main body toward an opposite bottom surface of said conical shaped first end as said sloping curvature progressively extends toward said first end, wherein said sloping curvature terminates at said first end and at said opposite bottom surface of said conical shaped first end to provide a termination of said first end, and wherein said additional material that is removed from said first end includes all of said conical shaped first end that is disposed above said sloping curvature, and wherein said sloping curvature extends across a width of said main body, and wherein said termination of said first end is disposed below a longitudinal center axis of said main body, and wherein said termination of said first end includes an arcuate shape that extends across a width of said main body along where said sloping curvature and said opposite bottom surface of said conical shaped first end intersect, and wherein said arcuate shape includes an edge that extends along an entire length of said termination of said first end, wherein said termination of said first end of said toothpick includes a rounded end, and wherein an entire length of said edge includes said arcuate shape, and wherein said edge is able to enter a gingival sulcus without puncturing a tissue that said edge contacts at a base of said gingival sulcus.