Orthotropic and Orthognathic Oral Device and Method
AssigneeBreathe Baby Products Inc.
InventorNafys Samandari
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Abstract
A hygienic oral feed-bottle nipple includes an opening skirt to expand and rotate in the buccal vestibule. As the child completes the suckling cycle, the mouth portion is distorted, the skirt extended to provide cleaning, stimulation, and a bumper to deny extensive pronation. The flanges and skirt may be covered with a textured surface, or bristles, that provide mechanical brushing of oral surfaces. Hard pads set along a superior surface of the nipple are compressed against the maxilla palate and provide upwards and/or lateral force to encourage lateral expansion of the palate. The nipple may be bifurcated into left and right opposing lobes which can split laterally to enhance lateral force on maxilla.
Claims20
A bottle-feed nipple device adapted to be at least partially inserted into the oral cavity and form a resting shape when at rest and a compressed form when under pressure from either compression of a nipple, collar, and/or neck of the device, said device comprising:
- a nipple bulb set on a posterior end of the device, the nipple bulb comprising a pore along an outer surface, and a pair of laterally opposing pads set along a superior surface of the bulb, with a cleft set between the pair of laterally opposing pads, and a tongue guide as a depression along an inferior surface of the nipple bulb with an inferior lingual ridge defining a posterior edge of said longue guide;
- a superior skirt coupled anterior of said nipple bulb, said superior skirt comprising a bumper edge along a lip of the skirt, and an inferior skirt coupled anterior of said nipple bulb;
- said device having a resting shape and a compressed shape, wherein resting shape comprises said superior and inferior skirts at a first angle relative a center line set horizontal and longitudinally through said device, and said pair of laterally opposing pads in a first position;
- said device further having a compressed state, said device forming said compressed state when external pressures are applied against the nipple bulb, at a collar via one or more alveolar ridges and/or a neck by one or more lips;
- said compressed state comprises said superior and inferior skirts at a second angle relative the center line, and said pair of laterally opposing pads in a second position;
- wherein said second angle is greater than said first angle, and said second position comprises said pair of laterally opposing pads further from one another in a transverse direction.
An oral device adapted to be at least partially inserted into the oral cavity, said device comprising:
- a nipple with a pair of pads laterally arranged relative one another along a superior surface of a bulb of said nipple, said pair of pads with a first pad on the right and a second pad on the left with a cleft set therebetween;
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- wherein said nipple is adapted to form a resting shape and a compressed shape, said compressed shape comprising expanded positioning of said pair of pads laterally further apart one another relative a contracted positioning in a resting shape.
A method for providing lateral pressures on the maxilla via an intra-oral device, said method comprising:
- a. at least partially inserting a nipple with a first right pad and second left pad along a superior side of the nipple;
- b. pressing a tongue against a tongue guide along an inferior side of the nipple causing a first and second pad to separate laterally from one another;
- c. engaging the maxillary palate with the pads to cause an outward lateral force to the palate via the pads.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.