Dental appliance
AssigneeWuxi Ea Medical Instruments Technologies Limited
InventorsKetuo Zhou, Meng Wang, Lei Huang
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Abstract
In one aspect of the present application, a dental appliance for isolating jaws from facial muscles is provided, the dental appliance is substantially in the shape of an elongated plate curved according to dental arches, and is received between the jaws and the facial muscles when it is worn, the dental appliance comprises: buccal shields located at both ends of the dental appliance and configured to isolate posterior teeth from facial muscles; and labial bumpers located in the middle of the dental appliance and configured to isolate anterior teeth from facial muscles, wherein the buccal shields and the labial bumpers form an integral piece.
Claims8
A dental appliance for isolating jaws from facial muscles, the dental appliance being substantially in the a shape of an elongated plate curved according to dental arches and being received between the jaws and the facial muscles when it is worn, the dental appliance comprising:
- buccal shields located at both ends of the dental appliance and configured to isolate posterior teeth from facial muscles;
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- labial bumpers located in a middle of the dental appliance and configured to isolate anterior teeth from facial muscles, wherein the buccal shields and the labial bumpers form an integral piece;
- wherein the buccal shields and the labial bumpers define an opening configured to cover all canines and incisors, thereby preventing the dental appliance from colliding with the incisors and canines wherein contours of the upper and lower sides of the dental appliance have inwardly-recessed structures formed thereon to avoid lip ties when the dental appliance is worn.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.