Oral appliance device and method for use thereof for appetite su

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1998-04-09

1999-11-09

Lucchesi, Nicholas D.

Surgery

Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants

Antisnoring device

128861, 433 6, A61F 556

Patent

active

059794496

ABSTRACT:
An oral appliance device and method are provided for suppressing the appetite for weight control. The oral appliance device includes a substantially U-shaped channel for receiving the upper teeth of the wearer and a roof portion that conforms to the roof of the wearer's mouth. The roof portion includes an upwardly protruding rear tab portion that contacts the roof of the mouth substantially at the juncture between the soft and hard palates. A lower surface of the roof portion contacts a top surface of the tongue at substantially a rear portion thereof. The method includes fitting the oral appliance device to the wearer's mouth by deforming the device by hot water or the like to conform to the wearer's mouth and then cooling it down, inserting the fitted device in the mouth such that the upper teeth are received in the channel and the upwardly protruding rear tab portion contacts the roof of the mouth and the roof portion lower surface contacts the tongue.

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