Oral data collecting device for diagnosis or prognosis
AssigneeEmanate Biomedical, Inc.
InventorPeter John Zegarelli
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Abstract
An apparatus that monitors information associated with an oral cavity is provided, the apparatus comprising: a three-dimensional oral appliance; a data collection device having at least one sensor and/or hydrogel like material configured to sense the information associated with the oral cavity; an interface device cooperatively coupled to the data collection device, the interface device configured to transfer the information from the sensor device to a receiving device external to the oral cavity or the entire device is analyzed.
Claims10
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a processing device, perform operations comprising:
- monitoring biological characteristics associated with an oral cavity from a data collection device of a three-dimensional oral appliance;
- the data collection device having at least one sensor disposed in a cargo area adjacent to the teeth and contacting the soft tissue of the oral cavity such that the data collection device is configured to sense the biological characteristics comprising oxygen content and/or carbon dioxide content associated with the oral cavity;
- and an interface device cooperatively coupled to the data collection device, the interface device configured to transfer information of the biological characteristics from the sensor device to a receiving device external to the oral cavity or the data collection device itself is configured to be removed and sent for analysis.
An oral appliance for collecting biological information about at least a portion of teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside an oral cavity, the oral appliance comprising an interior surface having a sampling medium disposed in or on at least a portion of and/or all of the interior surface of the oral appliance, the interior surface 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 sampling medium in contact with at least the portion of the teeth and/or soft tissue areas inside the oral cavity, the sampling medium configured to collect biological tissue from the oral cavity and be removed from the interior surface of the oral appliance, wherein the sampling medium is removable from the oral appliance, and the sampling medium is disposed in a cargo area adjacent to the teeth and the sampling medium is configured to contact the soft tissue of the oral cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.