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US4468196:
Method of and apparatus for orthopedic and/or orthodontic treatment
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Keller, Duane C.; St. Louis, MO 63123
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None
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| Published / Filed: |
1984-08-28
/ 1982-05-24
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| Application Number: |
US1982000381379
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61C 7/00;
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IPC-7:
A61C 7/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
433/024;
433/007;
Original:
433/024;
433/007;
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| Field of Search: |
433/007,6,24
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| Priority Number: |
| 1982-05-24 |
US1982000381379 |
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| Abstract: |
Method of orthopedic and/or orthodontic treatment comprising the steps of securing bands or the like to selected teeth (e.g., selected molars) of one jaw (e.g., the upper or lower jaw) of a patient with these bands being adapted to hold an archwire. Then, the proper relationship of the mandible to the maxilla is temporarily established, such as through the use of temporary splints, allowing ligaments and muscles to function normally and maintaining the patient's proper mandibular and temporomandibular joint positions. A body of pliable, hardenable material carried by the archwire is placed in the patient's mouth with the patient's mouth open and with the archwire held in place by the bands, the body of pliable, hardenable material is in register with selected teeth (e.g., the incisors) of the patient's other arch. A buccal wire is optionally provided which contacts the outer surfaces of the front teeth and is passed distal to both the cuspids or the laterals, and is imbedded in the hardenable material on the inside of the selected teeth (e.g., front incisors and cuspids). Then, the patient closes his mouth so that with the mandible and temporomandibular joints properly positioned with respect to the maxilla, the selected teeth of the other jaw form an impression in the body of hardenable material such that after hardening of the material and after the temporary splints are removed, the impression formed in the body of the hardenable material by the selected teeth of the other jaw serves as a reference to stabilize the position of the mandible, maxilla and temporomandibular joints during an extended period of orthopedic and orthodontic treatment whereby the patient's teeth may be orthodontically moved to their optimal anatomical and physiological positions with the mandible and temporomandibular joints held in their proper position.
Apparatus for carrying out the above-described method is also diclosed.
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Peshock, Robert;
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What is claimed is:
1. A method of orthodontic and orthopedic treatment comprising the steps of:
- installing a body of pliable, hardenable material in the patient's mouth so that with the patient's mouth open, said body of pliable material is in register with selected teeth;
- temporarily fixedly orthopedically establishing the proper relation of at least one of the patient's temporomandibular joints which is not in its proper functional orthopedic position;
- closing the patient's mouth so that with the orthopedic relationship of the patient's temporomandibular joints properly positioned, said selected teeth form an impression in the body of pliable material; and
- after hardening of the pliable material and after removal of the means utilized to temporarily fixedly establish the proper functional orthopedic position of the temporomandibular joints, utilizing the impression formed in said body of pliable material by said selected teeth serves as a reference relative to which the teeth may be moved to their respective desired positions and to stabilize the position of the temporomandibular joints in their proper functional orthopedic positions during an extended period of treatment.
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