Soft palate treatment
AssigneeAerin Medical Inc.
InventorsAndrew Frazier, Scott J. Wolf, Fred Dinger, Charlton Yih
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Abstract
A method of treating a soft palate in a patient may involve advancing a tissue treatment portion of a soft palate treatment device through the patient's mouth, contacting a treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion with mucosal tissue of the soft palate, and delivering energy from the tissue treatment portion through the mucosal tissue to a target tissue in the soft palate beneath to the mucosal tissue, to change at least one property of the target tissue. The method may further involve cooling the mucosal tissue with a cooling member on the treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion and removing the tissue treatment portion from the mouth.
Claims20
A method of treating a soft palate in a patient, the method comprising:
- advancing a tissue treatment portion of a soft palate treatment device through the patient's mouth;
- contacting a treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion with mucosal tissue of the soft palate;
- delivering energy from the tissue treatment portion through the mucosal tissue to a target tissue in the soft palate beneath to the mucosal tissue, to change at least one property of the target tissue;
- and
- removing the tissue treatment portion from the mouth.
A device for treating a soft palate in a patient, the device comprising:
- a handle;
- a shaft having a proximal end attached to the handle and a distal end;
- an elongate treatment element extending from the distal end of the handle, the elongate treatment element comprising:
- a treatment surface;
- at least two energy delivery members on the treatment surface;
- and
- a connector for connecting the handle with a power source.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.