Oral appliance for burn patients

An oral appliance for treating patients with facial burns, said appliance comprising a pair of spaced-apart end members each having an outer wing and an inner wing joined together along a edge to form a concave-shaped end member with the wings extending outwardly away from the outwardly extending wings of the other end member, said end member being of a size to engage and fit the patient's lips only at opposite corners at the sides of the opening of the patient's mouth, and adjustable means connected to said end members at a place centrally of each of them and providing for adjustable relative movement between said end members to vary the distance between them, said adjustable means terminating at the place of connection to each said end member and lying entirely between said end members regardless of the relative position of said end members.