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US 5,467,783 AGranted
Apparatus and method for the reduction of snoring
OwnerThomas E. Meadeinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for intra-oral use including a framework having an upper curved platform and a lower curved platform, each of the platforms being defined by two walls extending from and separated by a floor, a material bonded to the upper and lower curved platform adapted to be molded in a shape suitable for relatively snugly receiving maxillary teeth of a user and for relatively loosely receiving mandibular teeth of the user when the user's mouth is closed in a normal, closing arch, and a cavity formed between the upper and lower platforms adapted to receive the tongue of the user.
Claims10
An apparatus for intra-oral use comprising:
- a framework having an upper platform and a lower platform, each of the platforms being defined by two walls extending from and separated by a floor, a rear one of the two walls defining the lower platform extending substantially perpendicular to the floor defining the lower platform, said upper and lower platforms being curved in an arch to conform to a user's mouth, a rear wall of said lower platform being disposed at an inner portion of the arch and extending substantially perpendicular to a plane that contains the arch;
- a material bonded to the upper and lower platform adapted to be molded in a shape suitable for relatively snugly receiving maxillary teeth of a user and for relatively loosely receiving mandibular teeth of the user when the user's mouth is closed in a normal closing arch;
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- a cavity formed between the upper and lower platforms adapted to receive the tongue of the user.
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