Patent ID: 7425130

Claim:
A dental wedge for use in a dental medical treatment and restoration of hollow spaces associated with caries between neighboring teeth comprising a wedge shaped section having a triangular cross-section and forming a free end of a dental wedge, with rounded impact edges of a base face and of side faces and with the free end running out to a rounded tip; a truncated cone shaped or truncated pyramidal shaped expanding end piece ( 6 ) forming a head of the dental wedge, wherein the wedge shaped section and the head are solidly attached to each other; wherein the expanding end piece ( 6 ) expands from a small diameter end which is connected to the wedge shaped section to a larger diameter flat end face, a pocket recess ( 9 ) formed in the larger diameter flat end face of the expanding end piece ( 6 ) and aligned with a longitudinal axis of the wedge shaped section, wherein the pocket recess ( 9 ) serves for capturing the dental wedge with a gripping instrument, wherein the gripping instrument engages into internal faces of the pocket recess.