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8146601 Medical bite block and associated methods  
A bite block is to be positioned between opposing upper and lower teeth in a patient's mouth. The bite block includes an elongate member having a top and a bottom. First and second sidewalls are...
8113826 Biased palatal bone expander  
A biased palatal bone expander attaches directly to the palatal bone in the roof of the mouth of a patient. The expander has dual, biased, mutually parallel rods. The rods extend from coaxial tubes...
8100131 Mouthguard  
A “boil and bite” mouthguard including projections to improve moulding of the mouthguard to the user's teeth is described. The mouthguard also includes a base-wall configuration that acts to min...
8074656 Methods and systems for creating pressure gradients to improve airway patency  
An oral device for improving airway patency comprises a tongue constraint and a negative pressure source. The tongue constraint engages the patient's tongue to maintain a clear region below the...
8028705 Tongue retention system  
A tongue retaining system is disclosed herein generally having, in one variation, a two-part system. A covering can be sized to fit at least partially over or upon a tongue of a patient, where the...
7975700 System for adjustable tissue anchors  
Methods and devices are disclosed for manipulating the tongue. An implant is positioned within at least a portion of the tongue and may be secured to other surrounding structures such as the...
7955075 Device for correction of the form of dental alveolar arch  
A device has a metal wireframe with two lateral fastening elements which are connected through metal lingual and vestibular springs to a frontal fastening element and executed in the form of metal...
7887324 Osteogenetic-orthodontic device, system, and method  
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an osteogenetic-orthodontic appliance, device, system, and method optimizes craniofacial homeostasis by means of a 3-D axial spring that...
7861722 Sleep appliance  
A dental oral appliance to reduce or eliminate snoring or obstructive sleep apnea and to open the airway for a sleeping patient. The appliance covers the inside (lingual) of the upper or lower...
7841346 Method and device for mandibular advancement  
An orthotic device (100) for retaining a patient's mandible in an advanced or protrusive position comprises an intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface (125) for resisting mandibular...
7837465 Orthodontic expansion screw  
An orthodontic expansion screw having two bodies whose distance from each other can be changed by means of a spindle that engages both bodies. The spindle includes an actuation part for effecting a...
7780445 Palatal expansion device and methods  
The present invention embodies to a palatal expansion device that includes one or more stabilizers attached to the blocks; a ratchet that engages the screw; and a built-in activator that...
7771196 Orthodontic appliance  
An orthodontic appliance for distalizing opposed molars (2, 3) of the upper jaw of a patient, in which the device (4) has a bracing plate (5), which in its intended use rests on the palate of the...
7717707 Orthodontic transpalatal intrusion arch assembly and method of use  
An improved transpalatal arch wire assembly comprising a transpalatal arch wire, wherein the transpalatal arch wire comprises a first vertically sloping component, a second vertically sloping...
7677886 Maxillofacial orthodontic appliance  
A maxillofacial orthotic appliance comprises: a maxilla expander fixed to the maxilla in the mouth of a human and a towed-unit which is connected to the maxilla expander and is towed in an anterior...
7661955 Dental appliance  
A removable dental appliance having a base adapted for locating inside of an arch of teeth of a wearer and an arch wire coupled to the base, wherein an outer surface of the base is contoured for...
7637262 Anti-retrusion oral appliance  
An oral appliance for treating sleep apnea and bruxism is formed of a maxillary tray and a mandibular tray. The maxillary tray carries a maxillary bite pad projecting downwardly toward an opposed...
7621922 Facial osteodistraction device  
A system for midface distraction including a left side distraction mechanism and a right side distraction mechanism, each including: an implantable anchor configured to be coupled to a bone of the...
7607438 Mouth guard  
A mouth guard having a tray with a trough dimensioned to receive at least the front two incisors. Impression material is disposed within the trough for creating a dental impression of the wearer's...
7607439 Tongue retention system  
A tongue retaining system is disclosed herein generally having, in one variation, a two-part system. A covering can be sized to fit at least partially over or upon a tongue of a patient, where the...
7527642 Hinged therapeutic mouthpiece  
This invention relates to devices for insertion into the mouth for the application of heat or cold to oral tissue to provide a therapeutic effect. The device 10 includes an upper member 11...
7500851 Maxillary arch expander unbanded to teeth  
An orthodontic arch expander joins to a mouthpiece proximate to the rear of the mouthpiece. The transparent mouthpiece has a desired arc that fits over the teeth of the upper jaw. The mouthpiece...
7384265 Orthodontic force module  
An orthodontic force mechanism includes a jack screw having a pair of ends, at least one of which is threaded, and a central spindle between the ends, which spindle has two intersecting radial...
7357633 Device for correction of the form of upper jaw  
The invention relates to the medicine, in particularly, in orthodontics, and can be used during the correction of the form of upper jaw, namely, dental, alveolar and basal arches. The task of the...
7347687 Distraction apparatus for orthodontic, orthognathic and oral/maxillofacial surgery applications on the mandible  
The invention concerns a distraction appliance for orthodontic, orthognathic and maxillofacial surgery purposes on the mandible for the distraction of a frontal bone segment, wherein the appliance...
7331781 Orthodontic expander for increasing maxillary transverse dimension and method  
An orthodontic expander with opposing bodies interconnected by a shaft threaded on opposing ends in opposing directions so that rotation of the shaft by engagement of a rotation body with a tool...
7322987 Maxillary distraction device  
A device for maxillary jawbone and dentition expansion and/or retraction is configured for mounting within the mouth and connects the right and left halves of the skull. The maxillary distraction...
7314372 System and method to bioengineer facial form in adults  
A method and apparatus are provided for changing the form of the jaw and facial bones of an adult patient that did not develop fully during childhood. The method utilizes a device having a plate...
7195481 Orthodontic distractor  
An orthodontic distractor comprising a pair of telescopically interconnected channels, a drive screw operable to withdraw the inner channel from the outer channel and the outer channel being formed...
7192281 Method for stimulation of growth of missing tissues of jaw defects and a device for its realization  
The invention relates to medicine and could be used in orthodontics during the stimulation of growth and filling of defects of jaw's missing tissues, in particular, of palate cleft and alveolar...
7156654 Self-locking power component for orthodontic appliances  
A force adjusting mechanism for an orthodontic appliance wherein the appliance functions to move teeth and/or to expand the dental arch. The mechanism includes a shaft operatively coupled at...
7094051 Orthodontic appliance  
A mandibular and maxillary arch expansion apparatus having a first and second forward orthodontic bands and first and second rear orthodontic bands. The respective forward and rear orthodontic...
7074036 Palatal expansion device and methods  
The present invention relates to a palatal expansion device that has a screw having one or more activation arms wherein the screw connects two blocks, each block having an opening for receiving the...
7011518 Contoured palatal expander  
An orthodontic palatal expander appliance comprising an expansion screw, extensions leading from opposite ends of the expansion screw and contoured tooth engaging portions fixed to the ends of the...
6918915 Maxillary bone extensor  
A maxilla extension apparatus that extends the maxilla in lower forward direction, wherein a band is installed on the maxilla dentition, fixed onto a slide rail, and an arm is fixed onto the...
6877982 Mandibular and maxillary arch expander having polygonal or ovoid rod and tube expanding elements  
An orthodontic appliance for expanding the mandibular or maxillary arch comprises a first forward orthodontic band; a second forward orthodontic band; a first spring-loaded rod and tube assembly...
6783361 Orthodontic mechanical force module  
The present invention is generally directed to an orthodontic mechanical force module having a jack screw whose rotation is controlled by a ratchet. In one embodiment, a pair of housings are...
6644967 Process for making an expansion screw for orthodontics and screw thus made  
The present invention refers to a process for making an expansion screw and a screw thus made; the expansion screw (100, 100′) has two bodies (1, 2) that can be spaced apart by acting on the d...
6626665 Developed maxillary molar distalization appliance  
For maxillary molar distalization a newly developed maxillary molar distalization appliance is introduced. Maxillary first molars and first premolars were banded. On the palatal side of the Class...
6616672 Surgical instrument for displacing bone parts  
A surgical instrument having at least one displacement element is provided for displacing bone parts. The apparatus includes an implantable, flat housing in which an adjusting device for the...
6604943 Orthodontic appliance  
A method and apparatus for orthodontic treatment employs a cast mass-type appliance with a labial bow and combinations of labial and lingual springs to produce multiple coupled forces on selected...
6592366 Apparatus for palatal expansion  
Apparatus for the expansion of the palate with an extension part which may be lengthened and/or shortened it its length, which has on each of its two ends a fixation part the improvement wherein...
6568935 Lingual arch developer  
Various embodiments of lingual arch developers are disclosed that have at least one telescoping force generator module assemblies for exerting at least generally mesio-distally directed forces on...
6520772 Bimaxillary jaw expanding appliance  
A new a telescoping assembly or advancing sheath and a expansion complex are provided for a maxillary or mandibular arch expander. The advancing sheath is provided with a spring which extends...
6499996 Jackscrew for use in correcting misalignments of teeth  
Jackscrew for use in correcting misalignments of teeth, comprising two main bodies (1,2), whose mutual separation can be adjusted by means of a spindle (3) provided with an operating part (5) and,...
6450806 Orthodontic expansion screw  
The invention relates to an orthodontic expansion screw for the generation of an expansion force between a first and a second fastening elements, for the fastening to oppositely lying sides of the...
6435870 Orthodontic distalizing appliance  
This orthodontic distalizing appliance includes a forward support assembly having an anchoring base in the roof of the mouth. A rearward laterally disposed spring assembly is provided having outer...
6435871 Orthodontic appliance and method  
An orthodontic appliance (10) for treating anterior teeth of a patient includes a support structure (12, 14) having labial and lingual components for applying opposed forces to a set of targeted...
6436034 Intrabuccal stretcher  
Disclosed is an intrabuccal stretcher having essentially a supporting bar and a pushing part formed at each distal end of the supporting bar; the pushing parts having such a thickness and such a...
6425758 Flexible spring brace for the correction of tooth misalignment  
A elastic expansion appliance for correcting misalignments of teeth, which has two members connected by linear guidance element(s), a spacing between which can be modified via a spring arranged...
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