Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Antisnoring device
Patent
1995-04-12
1997-11-04
Hafer, Robert A.
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Antisnoring device
128859, 128861, A61F 556
Patent
active
056829035
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for intra-oral use including a framework having an upper curved platform and a lower curved platform, each of the platforms being defined by two walls extending from and separated by a floor, a material bonded to the upper and lower curved platform adapted to be molded in a shape suitable for relatively snugly receiving maxillary teeth of a user and for relatively loosely receiving mandibular teeth of the user when the user's mouth is closed in a normal closing arch, and a cavity formed between the upper and lower platforms adapted to receive the tongue of the user.
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Hafer Robert A.
Koo Benjamin
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