33 results about "Oral function" patented technology

Apparatuses, systems, and methods for treating oral functions are shown and described. An orthotic dental system for treating oral functions includes an upper dentition orthotic, a lower dentition orthotic, and an articulator system. The articulator system extends between the upper and lower dentition orthotics and can have at least one rigid connector pivotally coupled to the upper dentition orthotic and the lower dentition orthotic. A spacer can be positioned and configured to spatially separate the upper dentition orthotic and the lower dentition orthotic a desired minimum distance. The orthotic dental system can improve various types of oral functions.

A dental orthotic comprises a mandibular orthotic conforming to a user's mandibular dentition and including oral contours adapted for adjusting the user's tongue/tooth/mouth interaction, and may include extensions for positioning the user's tongue. The contours are designed and applied to specific locations on the orthotic and extensions of the orthotic to promote a desired tongue response for specific physiological symptoms. The contours change the shape of the mandibular orthotic as well as the dental shapes within the mouth, resulting in repositioning and/or reshaping of the tongue and tissue of the throat, thereby improving the oral functions as well as relieving neuromuscular responses and autonomic nervous system dysfunctions. The dental orthotic may include a maxillary orthotic that is fixed with respect to the mandibular orthotic.

A probe for measuring oral pressure according to the present invention includes: a balloon 1; a hollow tube 3 that has a first opening portion 3b and a second opening portion 3c and is connected to the balloon so that the first opening potion 3b communicates with an inside of the balloon 1; and a port member 20 with a valve 13 connected to the hollow tube 3 so as to block the second opening portion 3c. The probe for measuring oral pressure according to the present invention preferably further includes a hard ring 8 mounted on a portion between an inflated portion and an attaching portion of the balloon 1. The valve 13 may be a disk-shaped valve with an insertion hole 13a, for example.

A removable intraoral apparatus for improving airway patency is described. Wearing the apparatus alters the position, configuration and freedom of movement of the tongue, the muscles of mastication, as well as the pharyngeal and facial muscles. The apparatus is useful for correcting snoring and/or obstructive sleep apnea due to intermittent closures or partial obstructions occurring in the oropharynx during sleep. The apparatus of the invention can improve various types of airway disorders and improve oral functions by changing the position, configuration and freedom of movement of selected portions of the tongue and mouth, reducing the resistance to air flow in the mouth and pharynx, re-orienting and reprogramming the muscles of the mouth and tongue, and maintaining a proper oral systemic balance.

The present invention provides a system and method for correcting facial features and oral function in a subject. Also provided are a plurality of intra-oral appliances, which make up the system. The intra-oral appliances each include an appliance body configured for engaging one or more of the gingival-buccal area, the gingivolabial area, and the vestibular area of the subject's mouth, and include one or more extensions for at least partly defining the cavity in the vestibule of the subject's mouth.

The invention discloses a method for preparing an oral functional dental jaw pad by combining a hot pressing membrane and 3D direct printing. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of acquiring dental arch three-dimensional data and occlusion records of a patient, importing dentition data into 3D image processing software to construct a model, connecting a 3D printer to print and solidify a dentition model, and manufacturing a retention device of the dental jaw pad by adopting a positive-pressure hot-pressing membrane technology and the like. The dental jaw pad is prepared by combining the advantages of elasticity, relatively small thickness and relatively good tooth fitting property of the membrane prepared by the hot pressing membrane technology and the advantage of relatively high precision of the oral functional jaw pad prepared by 3D printing, and has the advantages of rapid and direct forming, short manufacturing period, high precision, low cost, low difficulty and the like; and the manufactured jaw pad can effectively solve the problem of difficult reservation of a tooth lacking gap in the manufacturing process of a replacement dentition jaw pad.

An oral functional appliance for adjusting functions of oral muscle organs includes a base and a body. The base is connected to a tooth surface, and the body is provided with at least one protrusion at a surface thereof.

The invention relates to a traditional Chinese medicine composition for oral care of critical patients as well as oral care liquid containing the traditional Chinese medicine composition. The traditional Chinese medicine composition is prepared from the following raw material medicines in parts by weight: 6 to 30 parts of honeysuckle, 20 to 40 parts of dandelion, 3 to 8 parts of new liquorice root, 10 to 20 parts of radix trichosanthis, 3 to 7 parts of mint, 7 to 15 parts of cortex dictamni, 5 to 15 parts of eupatorium and 4 to 8 parts of coptis chinensis. The composition and the oral care liquid containing the same have multiple effects of inhibiting bacteria, resisting bacteria, protecting oral mucosa, promoting wound healing and the like. Clinical tests prove that when the traditional Chinese medicine oral care liquid performs oral care on patients through orotracheal intubation, significant effects of improving the oral function state and inhibiting the number of oral bacterial colony are achieved. In addition, the traditional Chinese medicine oral care frequency has a certain advantage in the aspect of implementation, safety guarantee is provided for clinical use, and a normative traditional Chinese medicine oral care implementation scheme is provided for clinical nursing staff.

An exercise tool 1 for improving oral function inserted and used in an oral cavity includes: a base 10 inserted in the oral cavity; and a hollow bulge 20 which is made of an elastic body and protrudes from the base 10. Level difference portions 41-43 and 51-53 are provided in a vertically intermediate region of at least one of an outer surface and an inner surface of the bulge 20.

The present invention relates to an oral function appliance. The appliance comprises: a base plate which is in dental arch shape and forms a groove in the middle, so that upper and lower tooth rows can bite into the groove; and a connecting structure which can be used for detachably connecting the base plate with one or more lip stoppers and/or buccal stoppers. According to the oral function appliance provided by the invention, the lip stoppers/buccal stoppers are separated from the elastic base plate main body, the base plate, the lip stoppers and the buccal stoppers of various types can be manufactured through standardized design and can be exchanged and combined differently according to needs in the using process, the lip stoppers, the buccal stoppers and the base plate with proper shapes and strength can be provided according to needs, the cost is greatly reduced, and the usability is improved.

The invention discloses a full denture plastic splint type transparent tooth holder. The full denture plastic splint type transparent tooth holder comprises two parts, i.e., an inner rack body and an outer rack body, wherein the inner rack is fixedly connected with the outer rack body through stainless steel wires; the inner rack body and the outer rack body are held close to the buccal and lingual surfaces of teeth and the lingual dental socket mucous membrane; a cavity between the inner rack body and the outer rack body is made according to the size of the teeth; the tooth occlusal surface is fully exposed. The full denture plastic splint type transparent tooth holder is held close to the teeth; the holder is tailored; the inner rack body and the outer rack body are closely attached to each tooth on both buccal and lingual sides without gap in order to provide guarantee for achieving the treatment purpose; the holder is stable to wear, tight, non-leveraging, and comfortable and attractive for a patient to wear, and the temporal-mandibular joint can be effectively protected; the holder is small in size and does not affect the pronunciation or the normal oral function; the inner rack body and the outer rack body of a functional part of the holder are made of plastic and have certain hardness and slight elasticity, the occlusal surface contains no plastic, no wear is caused by the occlusion, and four steel wires for connecting the inner rack body and the outer rack body have certain elasticity, so the holder is firm and difficult to damage.

An oral function and dysfunction quantification device that automatically records the amount of time required for a laboratory animal to gnaw through multiple obstructions in a tube comprising a confinement tube and spring-loaded polymer dowels that actuate timers to precisely record the time required for a rodent to complete a discrete gnawing task. The investigation of human orofacial pain requires an animal test that objectively measures impairment secondary to pain during an oral function (gnawing) that is analogous to behavior that elicits pain in human patients (chewing). The device can also evaluate behavioral change secondary to complex disorders such as anxiety and depression and facilitate evaluation of molecular mechanisms and pharmacologic therapies relevant to chronic orofacial pain and behavioral disorders.

The invention discloses a self-locking segmentation design method for a maxilla defect prosthesis. The invention relates to a mechanical self-locking personalized design method for a maxilla defect prosthesis stent. The method comprises the following step of carrying out 2-6-block segmentation operation on the prosthesis stent, wherein the contact tangent planes of two adjacent blocks adopt falconor omega type bayonet structure design. The convex section of a convex part of the prosthesis has an inclination angle of 50-85 degrees, and a concave part is complementary with the convex part in shape and has the same inclination angle of 50-85 degrees. Therefore, the whole stent can be repaired and tightly fixed so as to avoid slippage and looseness in a bone defect repairing process; and further, regeneration and repair of maxilla defects of patients and recovery of oral functions of the patients are accelerated.

The present invention relates to a chewable tablet, and specifically, the invention relates to a healthy skimmed milk chewable tablet and a preparation method thereof. The chewable tablet of the invention uses skimmed milk powder, white sugar and food flavor as raw materials. The skimmed milk powder, white sugar and food flavor are mixed in a certain proportion, and a lubricant and an adhesive areadded to obtain the skimmed milk chewable tablet. The skimmed milk chewable tablet has a scientific ratio and rich nutrition, and can effectively remove the irritating odor caused by eating onions and garlic in the oral cavity, thereby achieving the effect of refreshing the oral cavity. The product has the advantages of low fat and low cholesterol, and also has a good taste, pure flavor, and caneffectively remove oral odor. Therefore, the chewable tablet is a healthy skimmed milk chewable tablet with fresh oral function.

The invention relates to an intelligent oral function trainer. The intelligent oral function trainer comprises a semi-annular upper tooth frame corresponding to human teeth in shape and a lower toothframe arranged on the lower portion of the upper tooth frame in a matching mode. The two ends of the upper tooth frame and the two ends of the lower tooth frame are hinged through resettable joint parts; an upper tooth groove is formed in the upper end of the upper tooth frame, an upper liquid storage cavity is formed in the lower end of the upper tooth frame, a plurality of micropores are evenlyformed in the bottom end face of the upper tooth groove and communicate with the upper liquid storage cavity, and liquid medicine is injected into the upper liquid storage cavity. A lower tooth grooveis formed in the lower end face of the lower tooth frame, a lower liquid storage cavity is formed in the upper end of the lower tooth frame, multiple micropores are evenly formed in the top end faceof the lower tooth groove and communicate with the lower liquid storage cavity, and liquid medicine is injected into the lower liquid storage cavity. The intelligent oral function trainer can increasethe pleasure of occlusion exercise of a patient, massage teeth and gingiva, improve alveolar blood circulation, promote rehabilitation and reduce dental caries; through release of liquid medicine inthe micropores, the phenomenon of dryness of the mouth is reduced, the swallowing frequency is increased, the function of the eustachian tube is improved, and the hearing of a patient is improved.