Cheek path airway and cheek pouch anchor

A cheek pouch anchor, for placement within a user's cheek pouch to maintain positioning of a work piece in a user's mouth while a user's jaws, inter occlusal space, and lips open and close, comprising:

• a spring element adapted to be placed within a user's cheek pouch, and
• to compress as a user's jaws close, and
• to resiliently expand so as to form and maintain a span bridging across a user's inter occlusal space and a user's lip opening formed as a user's jaws and lips open and close, and
• to receive joinder to a work piece, and
• having structural strength sufficient, when joined to a work piece, to maintain placement within a user's cheek pouch while a user's lips and jaws open and close, wherein said spring element further comprises:
• a resilient filament
• which is configured into a plurality of connected loops, each loop having a loop span size, and
• said plurality of loops are combined to form a whole spring element with a whole spring element span size, and
• each one of said plurality of loop span sizes is mutually adjustable relative to at least one other of said loop span sizes, such that an increase or decrease in the loop span size of any one of said plurality of loops results in a converse decrease or increase in the loop span size of at least one other of said plurality of loops, thereby enabling adjustment of said whole spring element span size by said mutual adjustment within said plurality of loop span sizes.

An adjustable cheek pouch anchor, for placement within a user's cheek pouch to maintain positioning of a work piece in a user's mouth while a user's jaws, inter occlusal space, and lips open and close, comprising:

• a spring element formed of a resilient filament
• sized to fit within a user's cheek pouch, and
• having a dynamic span
• that is resiliently expandable within a user's cheek pouch to maintain a bridge across a user's inter occlusal space and lip opening that form as a user's jaws open, and
• that is flexibly compressible to allow a user's jaws and lips to fully close while said spring element is within a user's cheek pouch, and
• capable of receiving attachment of a work piece, and having structural strength that is sufficient for said spring element to maintain itself, with a work piece attached to it, within a user's cheek pouch while a user's jaws open and close;
• and
• said resilient filament
• is configured into a plurality of connected loops
• each such loop having a loop span size, and
• each such loop span size having a range of expansion and compression, and
• said plurality of connected loops form a whole spring element having a whole spring element span size, and
• said whole spring element span size having a range of expansion and compression, and
• said range of expansion and compression of least one of said loop span sizes of said plurality of connected loops is adjustable relative to at least one other of said loop span sizes, and
• said connected loops translate an adjustment in said range of expansion and compression of the loop span size of at least one of said plurality of connected loops into an adjustment in said range of expansion and compression of said whole spring element span size.

A cheek pouch anchor, for placement within a user's cheek pouch to stabilize a work piece in a user's mouth, comprising:

• a spring element sized to fit within one of a user's cheek pouches, and
• having a dynamic span such that said spring element resiliently expands within one or more of a user's cheek pouches to maintain a bridge across a user's inter occlusal space and lip opening that form as a user's jaws open, and
• said spring element flexibly compresses to allow a user's jaws and lips to fully close while said spring element is within one or more of a user's cheek pouches, and
• having the capability to receive attachment to a work piece, and
• having structural strength that is sufficient for said spring element, with a work piece attached, to maintain itself within one or more of a user's cheek pouches while a user's jaws open and close,
• further comprising:
• said cheek pouch anchor is joined with a conduit for a fluid, which conduit is configured to enable placement of it at least partially in one or more of a user's cheek pouches.