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US 10,307,658 B2Granted
Mouth guard
OwnerNicholas C. Vece, Lucia S. Veceinventors
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Abstract
A mouth guard that can be customized in the field without needing to boil the mouth guard is disclosed. The mouth guard comprises a facial and lingual walls mounted on a thin flexible tray, such as a fabric mesh. Stops are positioned on the tray to space the user's teeth away from the tray. A layer of uncured elastomeric impression material is applied to the tray and the user bites down on the mouth guard to custom fit the mouth guard to the shape of the user's upper and lower teeth. The facial wall can be made of separate spaced-apart walls that can also be filled with impression or impact absorbing material.
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A custom mouth guard kit comprising:
- (a) a mouth guard base comprising:
- a generally U-shaped facial wall having a height between a top and a bottom of the facial wall and a width between an interior and exterior surface of the facial wall, said facial wall sized to cover facial surfaces of at least some of the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn, the facial wall comprising an outer wall and an inner wall having a facial wall gap therebetween, the outer wall defining the exterior surface of the facial wall, the inner wall defining the interior surface of the facial wall;
- a generally U-shaped lingual wall positioned within an interior space defined by the facial wall, the lingual wall having a lingual wall height between a top and a bottom of the lingual wall and a lingual wall width between an interior and exterior surface of the lingual wall, the exterior surface of the lingual wall and the interior surface of the facial wall defining a tooth gap therebetween having a width sufficient to receive the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn;
- a generally flat, thin, flexible tray joining the facial and lingual walls, the tray having a thickness between a top and a bottom surface and being generally perpendicular to the interior surfaces of the facial and lingual walls;
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- a plurality of stops extending upward from the top surface of said tray;
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- (b) a volume of uncured elastomeric impression material sufficient to cover at least a substantial portion of the top surface of the tray to a depth of at least about the height of said stops.
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A custom mouth guard kit comprising:
- a mouth guard base comprising:
- a generally U-shaped facial wall having a height between a top and a bottom of the facial wall and a width between an interior and exterior surface of the facial wall, said facial wall sized to cover facial surfaces of at least some of the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn, the facial wall comprising an outer wall and an inner wall defining a facial wall gap therebetween, the outer wall defining the exterior surface of the facial wall, the inner wall defining the interior surface of the facial wall;
- a generally U-shaped lingual wall positioned within an interior space defined by the facial wall, the lingual wall having a lingual wall height between a top and a bottom of the lingual wall and a lingual wall width between an interior and exterior surface of the lingual wall, the exterior surface of the lingual wall and the interior surface of the facial wall defining a tooth gap therebetween having a width sufficient to receive the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn;
- a generally flat, thin, flexible tray joining the facial and lingual walls, the tray having a thickness between a top and a bottom surface and being generally perpendicular to the interior surfaces of the facial and lingual walls;
- a plurality of stops extending upward from the top surface of said tray, the plurality of stops comprising at least first, second, and third stops;
- the stops being positioned on the tray such that, when the mouth guard is worn, said first stop will be generally adjacent a biting surface of upper central incisors of said person's upper teeth and said second and third stops will be generally adjacent a biting surface of respective left and right upper molars or pre-molars of said person's upper teeth.
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A custom mouth guard kit comprising:
- (a) a mouth guard base comprising:
- a generally U-shaped facial wall having a height between a top and a bottom of the facial wall and a width between an interior and exterior surface of the facial wall, said facial wall sized to cover facial surfaces of at least some of the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn;
- a generally U-shaped lingual wall positioned within an interior space defined by the facial wall, the lingual wall having a lingual wall height between a top and a bottom of the lingual wall and a lingual wall width between an interior and exterior surface of the lingual wall, the exterior surface of the lingual wall and the interior surface of the facial wall defining a tooth gap therebetween having a width sufficient to receive the person's upper teeth when the mouth guard is worn;
- a generally flat flexible tray joining the facial and lingual walls, the tray having a thickness between a top and a bottom surface and being generally perpendicular to the interior surfaces of the facial and lingual walls;
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- a plurality of stops extending upward from the top surface of said tray;
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- (b) a volume of uncured elastomeric impression material sufficient to cover at least a substantial portion of the top surface of the tray to a depth of at least about the height of said stops.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.