COVER-ALL, DRAPE-IT-ALL, CHAIR SLEVE, X-RAY SLEEVE, HEADREST COVER
Device Facts
| Record ID | K962288 |
|---|---|
| Device Name | COVER-ALL, DRAPE-IT-ALL, CHAIR SLEVE, X-RAY SLEEVE, HEADREST COVER |
| Applicant | Pinnacle Products, Inc. |
| Product Code | MMP · General, Plastic Surgery |
| Decision Date | Jan 30, 1997 |
| Decision | SESE |
| Submission Type | Traditional |
| Regulation | 21 CFR 878.4370 |
| Device Class | Class 2 |
Intended Use
These disposable plastic shields are for use with various small hand-held dental instruments such as handpieces, ultrasonic scalers, jet polishers, contra angle handpieces, and similar hand instruments. In other forms, they are used to cover various devices such as dental chairs, headpieces, accessory trays, x-ray heads, and others. These shields act as physical barriers which augment existing infection control techniques and simplify existing clean-up and disinfection methods.
Device Story
Disposable polyethylene plastic shields; designed to slip over dental instruments (handpieces, scalers, polishers) or cover dental equipment (chairs, trays, x-ray heads). Acts as physical barrier to prevent contamination; simplifies clean-up/disinfection; does not replace sterilization of instruments between patients. Used in dental clinics by dental staff. Benefits patient by reducing cross-contamination risk.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only; no clinical data provided. Device relies on established material properties of polyethylene for barrier protection.
Technological Characteristics
Material: Clear polyethylene. Form factor: Disposable, single-use plastic sleeves/drapes. Energy source: None (passive). Sterilization: Non-sterile.
Indications for Use
Indicated for use as a physical barrier to augment infection control and simplify cleaning/disinfection for dental instruments (handpieces, scalers, polishers) and dental equipment (chairs, headpieces, trays, x-ray heads) in a dental clinical setting.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
A surgical drape and drape accessories is a device made of natural or synthetic materials intended to be used as a protective patient covering, such as to isolate a site of surgical incision from microbial and other contamination. The device includes a plastic wound protector that may adhere to the skin around a surgical incision or be placed in a wound to cover its exposed edges, and a latex drape with a self-retaining finger cot that is intended to allow repeated insertion of the surgeon's finger into the rectum during performance of a transurethral prostatectomy.
Special Controls
*Classification.* Class II (special controls). The device, when it is an ear, nose, and throat surgical drape, a latex sheet drape with self-retaining finger cot, a disposable urological drape, a Kelly pad, an ophthalmic patient drape, an ophthalmic microscope drape, an internal drape retention ring (wound protector), or a surgical drape that does not include an antimicrobial agent, is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 878.9.
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