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US5467783:
Apparatus and method for the reduction of snoring
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Meade, Thomas E.; Albuquerque, NM 87104
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1995-11-21
/ 1994-12-06
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| Application Number: |
US1994000354139
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| IPC Code: |
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A61F 5/56;
IPC-7:
A61F 5/56;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61F5/56B;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
128/848;
128/859;
128/861;
Original:
128/848;
128/859;
128/861;
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| Field of Search: |
128/848,857-863,776,777
433/006,7,140
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| Priority Number: |
| 1994-12-06 |
US1994000354139 |
| 1992-11-16 |
US1992000977266 |
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| 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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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Hafer, Robert A.; Kenealy, David J.
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| INPADOC Legal Status: |
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"Dental Colleague" advertising material for 1988 seminars by Thomas E. Meade.
"Silent Night" advertising copy.
"Obstructive Sleep Apnea Synchrome: An Update for Dentists", Wayne W. Triplett, D.D.S. and Bruce A. Lund, D.D.S., Jan.-Feb. 1988.
"Treatment of Snoring with a Dental Orthosis", W. W. Schmidt-Nowara, T. E. Mease, R. V. Wiggins, Departments of Medicine and Surgery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., May 8-11, 1988.
"The NAPA Applicance", Great Lakes Orthodontics, Ltd., Handouts from May-Jun., 1992, meeting of Association of the Professional Sleep Society, pp. 25-27, 30-31.
Brochure: "The NAPA Applicance" (Nocturnal Airway Patency Applicance), Dr. Peter T. George.
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