Patent ID: 8202286

Claim:
An anatomically correct tongue scraping tool for use on the tongue, the tool consisting of: a blade holder mounted at one end of an elongated handle; a planar blade selectively and rigidly engaged with the blade holder, the blade having a width approximating the width of the human tongue; a scraping portion of the blade extending outwardly from the blade holder and terminating with a smoothly integrated curvilinear edge extending over the width of the blade; the curvilinear edge having curve segments limited to: a) two spaced apart, concave segments; b) a single convex segment; and c) two spaced apart, rounded segments joining the curvilinear edge with sides of the blade; wherein, the convex segment separates the concave segments and is positioned medially on the curvilinear edge; and the curvilinear edge approximating the transverse contour of the dorsum of the human tongue.