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US 11,642,238 B2Granted
Mandibular protrusion device
AssigneePanthera Dental Inc.
InventorFlorent Miquel
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Abstract
A mandibular protrusion device which comprises a maxillary dental tray, a mandibular dental tray and at least two lateral links. Each one of the lateral links has a first end removably engageable with the maxillary dental tray and a second end removably engageable with the mandibular dental tray. The maxillary dental tray, mandibular dental tray and the lateral links have complementary male and female members configured to be engageable and disengageable from one another in at least one engagement/disengagement configuration that is not reached when the device is worn or in normal use.
Claims20
A mandibular protrusion device comprising:
- a maxillary dental tray;
- a mandibular dental tray including a wall defining a U-shaped dentition receiving cavity with two spaced-apart posterior sections and two flanges extending upwardly from a respective one of the posterior sections of the wall;
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- at least two lateral links, each one of the lateral links having a first anterior end, a second posterior end, and an elongated portion extending therebetween along a longitudinal axis, the first anterior end being removably engageable with the maxillary dental tray and the second posterior end being removably engageable with a respective one of the flanges of the mandibular dental tray, with the elongated portion having a curvature defined therein to provide an offset, along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and viewable in a transverse plane, between the elongated portion at the first anterior end and at the second posterior end, to allow each one of the lateral links to be engaged with an outer side of the maxillary dental tray and with an inner side of the respective one of the flanges, the maxillary dental tray, the mandibular dental tray and the lateral links having complementary male and female members configured to be engageable and disengageable from one another.
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A mandibular protrusion device comprising:
- a maxillary dental tray;
- a mandibular dental tray including a wall defining a U-shaped dentition receiving cavity with two spaced-apart posterior sections and two flanges extending upwardly from a respective one of the posterior sections of the wall;
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- at least two lateral links, each one of the lateral links having a first end, a second end, and an elongated portion extending therebetween, the first end being removably engageable with the maxillary dental tray and the second end being removably engageable with a respective one of the flanges of the mandibular dental tray, with the elongated portion having a curvature defined therein to allow each one of the lateral links to be engaged with an outer side of the maxillary dental tray and with an inner side of the respective one of the flanges, the maxillary dental tray, the mandibular dental tray and the lateral links having complementary male and female members configured to be engageable and disengageable from one another,
- wherein the mandibular protrusion device is configurable between a plurality of operative configurations reached when the device is worn or in normal use and a non-operative configuration distinct from the plurality of operative configurations and being above 90° and below 270° with respect to the configuration where the maxillary dental tray and the mandibular dental tray are superposed, the at least two lateral links being engageable and disengageable from the maxillary dental tray and the mandibular dental tray only when the mandibular protrusion device is configured in the non-operative configuration.
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A mandibular protrusion device comprising:
- a maxillary dental tray;
- a mandibular dental tray including a wall defining a U-shaped dentition receiving cavity with two spaced-apart posterior sections and two flanges extending upwardly from a respective one of the posterior sections of the wall;
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- at least two lateral links, each one of the lateral links having a first anterior end, a second posterior end, and an elongated portion extending therebetween along a longitudinal axis and having a tray-facing surface and an outer surface, opposed to the tray-facing surface, the first anterior end being removably engageable with the maxillary dental tray and the second posterior end being removably engageable with a respective one of the flanges of the mandibular dental tray, with the elongated portion having a curvature defined therein to provide an offset, along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and viewable in a transverse plane, between the elongated portion at the first anterior end and at the second posterior end, with the tray-facing surface at the first anterior end being offset from the tray-facing surface at a posterior end with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongated portion to allow each one of the lateral links to be engaged with an outer side of the maxillary dental tray and with an inner side of the respective one of the flanges, the maxillary dental tray, the mandibular dental tray and the lateral links having complementary male and female members configured to be engageable and disengageable from one another.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.