Non-Surgical Method and System for Reducing Snoring
OwnerJoseph E. Kovarikinventor
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Abstract
A method, system and device for addressing the reduction of snoring includes a removable or dissolvable strip of material that adhere to mucosal tissue of a person's soft palate to provide stiffening support therefore, thus reducing the occurrence of vibration of such tissue during sleep. Preferred embodiments include of a specially textured surface, either one both or at least the outer side of an adhesive strip (the side facing away from the mucosal tissue to which it is attached) that has anti-microbial characteristics, bioluminescent expressions, etc. and a surface topography that resists bioadhesion of undesired bacteria that are typically present in a human's mouth.
Claims15
A non-surgical method for treating snoring in a subject, the method comprising:
- orally administering to a subject in need thereof a mucosal adhesively attachable film for use in the reduction of symptomatic, habitual or social snoring caused by a flutter of tissue in the soft palate, wherein said film stiffens the soft palate tissue to reduce the flutter that causes snoring and/or palatal obstruction of the upper airway.
A buccal bioadhesive strip having no active drugs, that when applied to the tissue of the soft palate, stiffens the tissue to reduce vibration, comprising:
- at least one coating layer having a surface topography for resisting bioadhesion, said at least one layer comprising a polymer, said coating layer having a pattern defined by a plurality of spaced apart features attached to or projected into a base surface, said plurality of features each having at least one microscale dimension and having at least one neighboring feature having a substantially different geometry, wherein an average spacing between adjacent ones of said features is between 0.5 and 5 .mu.m in at least a portion of said coating layer, said coating layer resisting bioadhesion as compared to said base surface.
A buccal bioadhesive strip comprising a strip having a first and second side, the first side having a bioadhesive that binds to a mucosal membrane for at least 3 hours while inside a person's mouth, the second side having a specially textured surface that has anti-microbial characteristic derived from its surface topography, said topography such that it resists bioadhesion of undesired bacteria that are typically present in a human's mouth.
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