12 results about "Right hard palate" patented technology

The present disclosure provides generally for a therapeutic oral device for assessing one or more health aspects of a user and / or alleviating one or more health conditions of a user, and associated methods for using the device. The device may comprise a hard palate portion, a mouth guard portion, and a tongue retainer portion. The hard palate portion may comprise one or more materials. The hard palate portion may also comprise a composite of materials. The mouth guard portion may comprise one or more components that provide stability and maintain the position of the therapeutic oral device within the mouth of a user. The tongue retainer portion may comprise an airway and a predetermined length. In some embodiments, the therapeutic oral appliance may comprise a mandibular mouth guard portion.

Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of digital processing, and disclose a display method and device of a hard palate appliance, an electronic device and a storage medium. The display method of the hard palate appliance in the present application comprises: obtaining information of a digital dental model, the information of the digital dental model at least including a maxillary tooth grid, a hard palate grid and a bite direction in tooth data of a case; calculating control points of teeth with preset numbers in the maxillary tooth grid; obtaining a grid model of a lower surface according to the control points and the hard palate grid; obtaining a grid model of an upper surface according to the grid model of the lower surface and the bite direction; generating a display model of the hard palate appliance according to the grid model of the lower surface and the grid model of the upper surface; and displaying the display model of the hard palate appliance. In the embodiments of the present application, the morphological characteristics of the hard palate appliance can be displayed.

A dental appliance is disclosed. The appliance may include an arcuate base shaped to extend along at least a portion of an upper dental arch of a patient and match with a custom fit at least certain maxillary teeth of the patient. The appliance may further include a tongue-retention feature. The tongue-retention feature may connect to the arcuate base and comprise a palatal portion and a sublingual portion. The sublingual portion may cooperate with the palatal portion to form a cavity shaped to receive an anterior portion of a tongue of the patient therewithin. The palatal portion may have an exterior surface custom-formed to match at least a portion of a hard palate of the patient.

An ornamental design for a facial exercise device, as shown in the figures and description. The facial exercise device is used to strengthen, tighten, and tone the midface, lower face, orofacial region, and oropharynx (including the tongue and floor of the mouth muscles) for both aesthetic and rehabilitative therapeutic purposes. The facial exercise device comprises a trapezoidal tubular body having a primary isosceles trapezoidal shape. The trapezoidal tubular body defines a plurality of openings with equally spaced compressible and bendable body members centered around a central opening, positioned at predetermined locations for isometric and isotonic muscle resistance training for various facial and tongue movements. The facial exercise device can be positioned anywhere, including under the lower lip, under the upper lip, under both lips, on one or both cheeks, around the outer periphery of the mouth, and within the oral cavity (contacting the hard palate, tongue surface, and floor of the mouth). 1.1) Perspective view; 1.2) Front view; 1.3) Plan view; 1.4) Bottom view; 1.5) Right side view; 1.6) Left side view; 1.7) Rear view; 1.8) Cross section; 1.9) Reference view showing the state of use; 1.10) Reference view showing the state of use

This utility model discloses a palatal support occlusal oral device, comprising an upper dental brace and a palatal support. The upper dental brace has a structure that engages with the upper teeth, including the buccal surface, lingual surface, and occlusal surface of the upper teeth. The palatal support includes a hard palate region corresponding to the hard palate and a soft palate region corresponding to the soft palate. Pressure sensors are respectively provided on at least the occlusal surface of the upper teeth and on both the hard and soft palate regions. This utility model, by placing sensors at multiple points on the tongue, palate, and occlusal surface, can detect pressure data at multiple points, thereby enabling coordinated analysis of multi-stage chewing and swallowing movements.

The invention provides a multi-view face image processing system, and relates to the technical field of image processing. The system comprises an image acquisition module used for shooting a front side face image, a first mouth image and a second mouth image; the preprocessing module is used for performing normalization and illumination enhancement on the multi-view face image; the feature quantitative calculation module is used for generating geometric features such as mandibular bones, tongue space ratio, neck-to-face ratio, facial geometric contour and eyelid texture based on the processed front and side face and first mouth image; the deep learning reasoning module is used for generating semantic features such as hard palate form probability distribution, tonsil grading, occlusal relationship and nose wing form based on the processed side face image, the first mouth image and the second mouth image; and the multi-modal feature fusion module is used for carrying out weighted fusion and nonlinear mapping on the geometric and semantic features and the physiological parameters of the user to obtain a fusion feature map. According to the invention, sleep apnea prediction is carried out directly based on the fused feature map, and the prediction efficiency and prediction precision of sleep apnea are improved.

Exercising methods using an exercising device to strengthen, tighten and tone midface, lower face, orofacial, oropharyngeal including the tongue and floor of mouth muscles for both aesthetic and rehabilitative therapeutic practices is disclosed. A dual facial exercising device having a pair of triangular tubular shaped body members of a primary triangular configuration joined together at their respective apexes. The combined triangular shaped body defines central openings with equal, compressible, and bendable body members there about for designated placement to perform isometric and isotonic muscle resistance training for a variety of facial and tongue exercises. An exercise methodology with universal placement under the lower lip, upper lip, both lips, unilateral or bilateral cheeks, in and around the outer region of the mouth, inside the oral cavity for hard palate, surface of the tongue and floor of mouth engagement.

The invention discloses an auxiliary supporting type nasal oxygen cannula suitable for a patient suffering from bucktooth and incisor tooth loss, and relates to the technical field of nasal oxygen canals, the auxiliary supporting type nasal oxygen cannula comprises a nasal oxygen cannula main body and an oral cavity supporting assembly, and the oral cavity supporting assembly is connected with the nasal oxygen cannula main body through a buckle type connecting assembly; the oral cavity supporting assembly comprises an adjustable occlusal pad and a plurality of anti-slipping buckles evenly arranged on the adjustable occlusal pad, the whole adjustable occlusal pad is of an arc-sheet-shaped structure, and the radian of the arc-sheet-shaped occlusal pad can be adjusted. The anti-slip buckle is used for hooking a gingival groove and abutting against the hard palate so as to fix the adjustable occlusal pad. According to the invention, the conversion from face fixation to stable support in the oral cavity is realized through structural innovation, a safe, comfortable and stable oxygen supply solution is provided for patients with abnormal tooth structures, the treatment compliance and life quality are remarkably improved, and the device has important clinical application value.

The application belongs to the technical field of oral medicine, and specifically relates to a maxillary fixed expansion appliance, which comprises a spiral expander, a plastic base, a connecting rod, a retaining device and a dental retraction hook. The spiral expander is located in the center of the appliance, the plastic base is divided into two parts in the center and covers the hard palate of the maxilla, the retaining device is composed of a continuous band ring casted by the lower molar or premolar and a single band ring casted by the first molar, and the dental retraction hook is located in the plastic base and used for retracting and lowering the maxillary first molar with buccal inclination after expansion. The appliance has a wide clinical application range and is suitable for patients with mild to moderate transverse maxillary hypoplasia and maxillary posterior tooth buccal inclination compensation. The appliance can achieve good skeletal expansion effect for patients in the mixed dentition period or early permanent dentition period and reduce excessive tooth buccal inclination and movement in the maxillary rapid expansion patients.

A jaw position correction device including a lateral tooth row arrangement unit, a first pressing force generating unit, a second pressing force generating unit, and a resultant force transmitting unit; (1) When worn, the lateral dental row placement section is positioned along the palate side of the maxillary dental row in the region corresponding in length to the canine tooth through the second premolar in the right and left maxillary dental row of the wearer (patient), (2) The first pressing force generating unit includes a pressing force transmitting unit and a pressing force source in the vicinity of the hard palate, and is connected to the right and left lateral tooth row arrangement units, (3) The second pressing force generating portion exists at the connection portion between the right and left lateral tooth row arrangement portion and the right and left first pressing force transmitting portion, and generates a force that tends to widen the angle formed by the connection portion toward the rear as the second pressing force, (4) The resultant force transmission part includes a bending redundant part connected to the distal end of the lateral tooth row arrangement part, and an attachment fixing part connected to the bending redundant part and having the function of fixing to the maxillary molar, (5) A jaw position correction device capable of transmitting the resultant force of the first and second pressing forces to the maxillary molars via the attachment and fixing part; It has been found that by using this method, early contact with cusp interference is generated in the maxillary molars, and as a result, the patient's jaw position is reset to a relaxed state, the facial appearance is improved, and maxillary protrusion can be alleviated.

The invention relates to the technical field of stomatology, in particular to a method and system for measuring the bone mineral density ratio of a palate center seam, and the method comprises the steps: firstly obtaining the cross section slices of the palate center seam, the hard palate and the soft palate, and then segmenting the slices through a pre-trained image segmentation model to obtain the bone mineral density ratio of the palate center seam; and respectively extracting a palate center seam region, a hard palate region and a soft palate region. Then, extracting a first target region, a second target region and a third target region from the regions according to a specific rule, and calculating the density ratio of the palate center seam based on parameters such as gray values of the target regions; in the extraction process, through the measures of setting boundary constraints, screening abnormal areas and the like, the accuracy and reliability of extraction are ensured, the measurement efficiency is remarkably improved, the measurement time is shortened, errors caused by manual measurement are reduced, meanwhile, a rapid and accurate diagnosis reference is provided for clinicians, especially new dentists with insufficient experience, and the accuracy and the reliability of extraction are improved. And the efficiency and accuracy of clinical work and research work are improved.

The utility model relates to a tooth correcting device which comprises an upper correcting device, a hard palate supporting part, an arch expanding mechanism and a demolding flat plate, the expansion mechanism comprises an expansion device connecting platform and an expansion reinforcing rib assembly; the upper appliance is attached to the upper row of teeth; the hard palate supporting part is fixedly connected with the upper appliance; the hard palate supporting part is attached to the upper palate; the expansion reinforcing rib assembly comprises a first reinforcing rib, a second reinforcing rib and a third reinforcing rib; the first reinforcing rib is fixedly arranged on the hard palate supporting part and the arch expanding device connecting platform; the second reinforcing rib is fixedly arranged on the hard palate supporting part and the arch expanding device connecting platform; and the third reinforcing rib is fixedly arranged on the hard palate supporting part and the arch expanding device connecting platform.