Patent ID: 7080980

Claim:
A dental hygiene device comprising: a. a dental hygiene head with a plurality of displaceable bristles secured thereto and extending therefrom adapted for brushing a dental surface, said dental hygiene head further including an irrigation mechanism for irrigating said dental surface with a fluid, said irrigating mechanism being fixedly located substantially adjacent to said displaceable bristles; b. a longitudinally extended handle housing connected to said dental hygiene head and adapted to be held by an operator, said handle housing having a control mechanism mounted thereon for activation and deactivation of said dental hygiene device; c. at least one handle pump for displacing said fluid, said at least one handle pump mounted in said handle housing and in fluid communication with said irrigating mechanism through a first fluid conduit; d. a telescoping handle chamber housing slidingly engageable with said handle housing and telescopingly received therein at a piston end of said handle housing opposite said dental hygiene head and in fluid communication with said handle pump by a second fluid conduit, said dental hygiene head, said handle housing and said telescoping handle chamber housing defining a handle assembly; e. a fluid reservoir in detachable fluid communication with a docking base member, said docking base member in detachable fluid communication with said telescoping handle chamber housing, said docking base member adapted to receivingly detachably dock said handle assembly; wherein a filling of said telescoping handle chamber with said fluid in the fluid reservoir is controlled by inserting said telescoping handle chamber housing on said docking base member for passage of fluid from said fluid reservoir into said telescoping handle chamber housing.