Surgery – Instruments – Oral pacifier
Patent
1999-07-02
2000-10-03
Jackson, Gary
Surgery
Instruments
Oral pacifier
606236, 604 77, A61J 1700
Patent
active
061266787
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The object of the present invention is an intraoral administration device according to the preamble of claim 1, by means of which it is possible to provide a local therapeutic effect in the region of the mouth and throat, which device is adapted to take into account the eruption order of the teeth and the location of the salivary glands, while simultaneously satisfying the physiological sucking need and craving for sweetness of small children, using small dosage levels tolerated by children and without causing malocclusions.
The administration device is characterized in that the development of a child is taken into account by providing for each development phase an individual device type, the construction of which and the location of the dispensing containers are adapted to take into account the eruption order of the teeth and the optimal function of the developing occlusion organ.
J. Suhonen (1992) has in his article "Mutans streptococci and their specific oral target. New implications to prevent dental caries" in the Swiss Journal "Schweiz Monatsschrift Zahnmed", 1992, 102, 286 to 291, presented the theoretical background for the use of a pacifier-type admistration device which slowly releases an active agent into the mouth, in a prophylactic method for the prevention of dental caries. The operability of a dispensing pacifier in vitro has been presented in the article "Realease of preventive agents from pacifiers in vitro" by J. Suhonen et. al. in said Swiss Journal "Schweiz Monatsschrift Zahnmed", issue 1994, 104, 946 to 51.
A dispensing pacifier prototype for dispensing sodium fluoride, xylitol and sorbitol has in our field trial in the health centre of the district of Lohja with children of an age of 16 months proved to be a functioning means with potential for development for the treatment of diseases of the mouth and the throat of children in the sucking-age. There appeared a significant reduction in dental caries and otitis in children using a dispensing pacifier, compared with children to whom the same prophylactic agent was administered without a pacifier.
Most of the known dispensing pacifiers, such as "Unit-dosing nipple" disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,078,566, J. J. Urban, "Teething dummy" described in GB-patent application 2 181 957, K. Needham, a pacifier according to European patent application 0 494 904 and FI-patent application 921411, developed by J. Suhonen, as well as CANNON babysafe Minifeeder, available in pharmacies, consist of at least three parts detachable from each other, i.e. a sucking piece, a cover and a protecting plate arranged between them, or a mounting ring provided with a thread, for a cover/bottle. This solution is either injuriously massive for the teeth (Urban, Needham, CANNON), or as to the manufacturing technique too exacting (as to the technique of locking of the cover and the sucking piece of the pacifier developed by Suhonen), or too complicated. However, the greatest problem related to these devices is that if the device is not closed correctly due to human carelessness, a releasing part may fall into the throat of a child and cause danger of suffocation.
In a dispensing pacifier according to U.S. Pat. No. 5,127,903, Mailot et. al., a protecting plate and a sucking piece are integrally formed, but it is characterized in that the interior of the sucking piece is divided into compartments and to a separate chamber for receiving a removable medicament containing unit. The solution of this kind is unhygienic, as in the connection with the cleaning of the sucking piece, it is difficult to wash off the saliva entered into the sucking piece.
It is the primary object of this invention to provide such an intraoral administration device in which the above mentioned drawbacks have been overcome and which is safe in use without any releasing parts endangering the safety. This aim has been achieved by an administration device according to the characterizing part of claim 1.
The intraoral administration device according to the present invention consists of a part intended to b
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Aaltonen Antti Sakari
Suhonen Jouko
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