Integrated Saliva Suction Guide Plate for Dental Surgery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional oral treatment guide plates are limited by their single-function design, making it inconvenient and inefficient to simultaneously perform saliva suction and oral treatment, often requiring additional staff and leading to tissue edema and operational space issues.
Innovation Solution
An oral treatment guide plate with integrated saliva suction branch tubes, including a lingual and buccal suction tube, connected to a suction main tube that creates negative pressure for efficient fluid removal, allowing for simultaneous guidance of surgical instruments and saliva suction without occupying surgical space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional disposable saliva suction tube is used separately from the guide plate, then saliva suction function is provided, but it occupies surgical operation space and requires additional staff assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The saliva suction tube is integrated with the guide plate body, merging two previously separate devices (guide plate and suction tube) into a single unified structure. The suction tube is embedded within the guide plate body, allowing simultaneous guidance and suction functions without requiring separate components or additional staff.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide plate is transformed from a single-function device (only guidance) into a multi-functional device that simultaneously provides surgical guidance and saliva suction capabilities. This allows one device to perform multiple tasks that previously required separate devices and staff members.
2Ease of operation
If a traditional saliva suction tube is manually inserted and positioned, then saliva suction is achieved, but it causes tissue edema due to prolonged contact with mucosal flap
Solution Approach 1:
The saliva suction tube is pre-positioned and fixed to the guide plate body before the surgical procedure begins. The tube is preliminarily configured to follow the natural anatomical path, preventing it from sticking to the mucosal flap during the procedure and reducing tissue edema.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide plate body serves as an intermediary structure that holds and positions the saliva suction tube. This intermediary arrangement ensures the tube maintains proper spacing from the mucosal flap, preventing direct prolonged contact that causes edema while still enabling effective saliva suction.
3Reliability
If separate saliva suction and oral treatment operations are performed, then each function can be performed adequately, but it requires additional staff and increases operation time
Solution Approach 1:
The guide plate and saliva suction system are merged into a single integrated device, allowing one dentist to simultaneously perform both surgical guidance and saliva suction functions. This eliminates the need for additional staff and reduces operation time while maintaining the reliability of both functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide plate performs multiple functions (surgical guidance and saliva suction) simultaneously, increasing surgical efficiency by eliminating the need for separate operations and staff. The multi-functional design maintains operational effectiveness while reducing overall procedure time and resource requirements.
4Ease of operation
If fluid is present in the tongue and buccal areas during surgery, then saliva suction is needed, but switching between areas is inconvenient with traditional tubes
Solution Approach 1:
The saliva suction system is segmented into multiple branches (lingual branch tube and buccal branch tube) that are separately positioned on the guide plate. Each branch is dedicated to a specific anatomical area, allowing simultaneous or rapid switching between tongue and buccal area suction without repositioning a single tube.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide plate body acts as an intermediary structure that positions and supports multiple suction branches in their respective anatomical locations. This intermediary arrangement enables easy access to both lingual and buccal areas simultaneously, eliminating the time loss associated with switching suction positions.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the efficiency and accuracy of oral treatment by allowing independent operation, reducing tissue edema, and preventing fluid pollution, while saving labor and time by integrating saliva suction into the guide plate design.
Implementation Method 1
The suction device forms negative pressure in lumens of the saliva suction main tube and the saliva suction branch tubes, so that fluid in the patient's oral cavity enters the saliva suction branch tubes from inlets of the saliva suction branch tubes
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AI summary
An oral treatment guide plate, comprising a guide plate body (1), a saliva suction main pipe (2), and a plurality of saliva suction branch pipes (3, 4); a notch (11) is provided on the guide plate body (1), a saliva suction branch pipe (3, 4) being arranged on both sides of the notch (11); an outlet of the plurality of saliva suction branch pipes (3, 4) is connected to an inlet of the saliva suction main pipe (2), and an outlet of the saliva suction main pipe (2) is configured to connect to a suction device. By means of arranging a saliva suction branch pipe (3, 4) on both sides of the notch (11), the saliva, blood, and cleaning solution produced during an oral treatment procedure can be promptly discharged, improving the saliva suction effect and efficiency, and preventing accumulated liquid from entering the treatment site and causing contamination; the saliva suction brand pipes (3, 4) do not occupy the space used for surgical operations, avoiding affecting the field of view of the operation. The present oral treatment guide plate has both an oral treatment guide function and a saliva suction function, helping the physician to independently implement oral treatment surgery, and thereby saving labour and time.