Patent ID: 6964569

Claim:
A pneumatic dental care device for private use which by means of a combination of air, liquid and powder cleans the user's teeth and removes plaque and discoloration, consisting of a base unit connected via a flexible sheathed tube and wire bundle to a hand unit, where the base unit contains a power source which, via a power supply lead, supplies power to a microcompressor, characterised in that: the microcompressor has first and second pressurizing tubes that respectively pressurize a liquid container and a powder container; a tube for transferring liquid is connected via a tube and wire bundle to the liquid container and a hand unit having an attached exchangeable nozzle unit in order at a positive pressure to be able to pass a liquid medium therefrom via the tube and wire bundle through the hand unit and into the attached, exchangeable nozzle unit; a tube for transferring powder is connected via the tube and wire bundle to the powder container and the hand unit in order at a positive pressure to be able to pass a powder medium therefrom via the tube and wire bundle through the hand unit and into the attached exchangeable nozzle unit; the flow through the respective tubes for transferring liquid and powder is selectively adjustable by means of a mixing unit mounted in a base unit, in order thus to adjust the ratio of liquid flow to powder flow; and wherein the base unit, the tube and wire bundle and the hand unit are integrated in a hand-held unit.