Devices for treating trismus and methods of use
AssigneeBite Ease, LLC
InventorsVirginia C. Monson, Stephen H. Monson
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Abstract
A device and method treating Trismus in a patient. The device is configured to be located completely within the mouth of the patient and includes a pair of teeth-receiving plates and at least one adjustable biasing assembly. The adjustable biasing assembly pivotably interconnects the teeth-receiving plates and is adjustable to establish a desired spacing between anterior portions of the teeth-receiving plates, and also provides a force to the teeth-receiving plates tending to bias the anterior portions of those plates to the desired spacing.
Claims10
A device for treating Trismus in a patient, said device being sized and configured to be located completely within the mouth of the patient without any portion extending out of the mouth of the patient, said device comprising:
- a pair of teeth-receiving plates sized and configured to be located completely within the mouth of the patient without any portion extending out of the mouth of the patient, each of said pair of teeth-receiving plates including an anterior portion and a posterior portion, with one of said pair of teeth-receiving plates being disposed over the other of said pair of teeth-receiving plates to establish a space between said anterior portion of said one of said pair of teeth-receiving plates and said anterior portion of the other of said pair of teeth-receiving plates;
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- at least one adjustable biasing assembly comprising a spring, a hinge, and a rotatable shaft, said at least one adjustable biasing assembly being sized and configured to be located completely within the mouth of the patient without any portion extending out of the mouth of the patient and interposed completely between the anterior portion and the posterior portion of said one of said pair of teeth-receiving plates and also interposed completely between the anterior portion and the posterior portion of the other of said pair of teeth-receiving plates, said at least one adjustable biasing assembly interconnecting said pair of teeth-receiving plates and being configured for pivotably connecting said pair of teeth-receiving plates to each other to establish a spacing between said anterior portions of said pair of teeth receiving plates and for providing a bias force to said pair of teeth receiving plates, said rotatable shaft being configured to be rotated to adjust said spacing and comprising said spring which is configured to naturally expand or contract.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.