Methods of making an oral appliance
AssigneeEmanate Biomedical, Inc.
InventorPeter John Zegarelli
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Abstract
An oral appliance and a method of making the oral appliance for delivering a medicament to an oral cavity are provided. The method comprises forming a non-porous material into a portion of the oral appliance; and applying a porous material to one or more discrete regions of the portion of the oral appliance to make the one or more discrete regions of the oral appliance porous thereby forming the oral appliance.
Claims11
An oral appliance for delivering a medicament to at least a portion of teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside an oral cavity, the oral appliance comprising a porous material containing a medicament to form a porous region and a non-porous material disposed on or in one or more discrete regions of the porous material to form a non-porous region as a structural backbone, the porous region of the oral appliance being formed to fit contours of at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity and being configured for holding the medicament in contact with at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity to deliver the medicament thereto, wherein the porous regions are disposed on top of the non-porous region of the interior surface of the structural backbone and the oral appliance does not move teeth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.