Apparatus for Clamping on the Lower or Upper Teeth, and Activator Comprising Such an Apparatus

• US 20110308532A1
• Filed: 01/08/2010
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Orthodontic Clinics BVBA
• Original Assignee: Orthodontic Clinics BVBA
• Inventors: Nelissen, Frans Jozef
• Application Number:
  US13/144,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20110308532A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 128/848
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 7/36 Devices acting between upper and lower teeth
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/566 Intra-oral devices

Abstract

Apparatus which can be placed clampingly on a lower jaw or upper jaw, in particular on the molars and/or pre-molars thereof, essentially consisting of:—at least a left and a right buccal shaped body on the buccal side;—one or more connecting elements between the left and right buccal shaped body, wherein the left and right buccal shaped bodies extend at least along respectively the left and right molars and/or premolars and/or canines; and wherein the one or more connecting elements are adapted to push the left and right shaped bodies into the undercuts of the molars and/or premolars and/or canines.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. An apparatus which can be placed clampingly on a lower or upper jaw, in particular on the molars and/or premolars thereof, essentially consisting of:

at least a left and a right shaped body (2a, 2b;

2a′

, 2b′

) on buccal or on lingual side;

one or more connecting elements between the left and the right shaped body (4a-b, 5a-b, 1;

30;

40a-b),

wherein the left and right shaped bodies extend at least along respectively the left and right molars and/or premolars and/or canines; and

wherein the one or more connecting elements are adapted to push the left and right shaped bodies into the undercuts of the molars and/or premolars and/or canines, and to hold the apparatus in place via a clamping action at typical intra-maxillary tensile forces.

24. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the entirety of the one or more connecting elements takes a more flexible form than the at least one left and right shaped body, and that each shaped body is a rigid body.

25. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the at least one left and right shaped body are buccal shaped bodies on the buccal side, and that the one or more connecting elements comprise:

a lingual shaped body (1) on the lingual side;

at least one left and one right connecting wire or strip (4a-b) between the lingual shaped body on the one hand and the at least one buccal shaped body on the other, which left and right connecting wires or strips are located on sides of the mouth laterally opposite each other and are adapted to clamp the lingual shaped body and the at least one buccal shaped body against the teeth.

26. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the at least one left and right shaped body are buccal shaped bodies on the buccal side, and that the one or more connecting elements comprise one or more connecting wires or strips (30) extending on the buccal side of the front teeth, and preferably consist of one connecting wire or strip extending along the buccal side of the front teeth.

27. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the at least one left and right shaped body are lingual shaped bodies on the lingual side, and that the one or more connecting elements comprise one or more connecting wires or strips (4a-b) extending on the lingual side, preferably close to the front teeth.

28. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the at least one left and right connecting wire or strip (4a-b) is formed in order to press respectively the left and right buccal shaped bodies against the buccal side of the teeth and to press the lingual shaped body against the lingual side of the teeth.

29. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the at least one left and right connecting wire or strip extend occlusally or interproximally over the teeth between the lingual shaped body on the one hand and respectively the left or right buccal shaped bodies on the other.

30. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the at least one left and right connecting wire or strip (4a, 4b;

5a, 5b) comprises in each case at least two wires or strips.

31. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein a first wire or strip of each at least two wires or strips extends on the distal side of premolar, preferably the foremost premolar, and a second wire of each connecting means extends on the mesial side of this premolar.

32. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein each connecting wire or strip is formed from at least one bendable metal strip, preferably a metal wire.

33. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein each shaped body is manufactured substantially from a rigid plastic or from metal, and preferably from a baseplate synthetic resin, more preferably on the basis of UDMA, PMMA, PC or a combination thereof, and for instance Eclipse synthetic resin from the company Dentsply, or a plastic material with a comparable hardness in cured form.

34. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the at least one left and the at least one right shaped body extend respectively at least along a left premolar and along a right premolar;

and/or over the distal side of a left canine and a right canine.

35. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the at least one left and the at least one right shaped body at least extend respectively from the distal side of a left canine to a left molar and from the distal side of a right canine to a right molar.

36. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the left and right shaped bodies extend at least along respectively the left and right molars and/or premolars and/or canines;

and

wherein the one or more connecting elements are adapted to push the left and right shaped bodies into the undercuts of the molars and/or premolars and/or canines, and to hold the apparatus in place via a clamping action at typical intra-maxillary tensile forces; and

wherein the at least one left and right shaped body are buccal shaped bodies on the buccal side, and the one or more connecting elements comprise;

a lingual shaped body (1) on the lingual side,;

at least one left and one right connecting wire or strip (4a-b) between the lingual shaped body on the one hand and the at least one buccal shaped body on the other, which left and right connecting wires or strips are located on sides of the mouth laterally opposite each other and are adapted to clamp the lingual shaped body and the at least one buccal shaped body against the teeth.

37. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein the at least one left and right connecting wire or strip extend occlusally or interproximally over the teeth between the lingual shaped body on the one hand and respectively the left or right buccal shaped bodies on the other.

38. A device comprising a lower apparatus as claimed in claim 22 fitting onto the teeth of the lower jaw, an upper apparatus as claimed in claim 22 fitting onto the teeth of the upper jaw, and connecting means between the upper and lower apparatus.

39. The device of claim 38, wherein the connecting means are adjustable.

40. The device of claim 39, wherein the connecting means are adapted to adjust the upper apparatus forward/rearward and/or upward/downward relative to the lower apparatus.

41. The device of claim 38, wherein a shaped body of the upper or the lower apparatus is provided with a guide element for a coupling element which is slidable laterally along this guide element and which can be coupled to a shaped body of respectively the lower or upper apparatus.

23. An apparatus which can be placed clampingly on a lower or upper jaw, in particular on the molars and/or premolars thereof, comprising:

a lingual shaped body on the lingual side;

at least one buccal shaped body on the buccal side;

a left and a right connecting element between the lingual shaped body on the one hand and the at least one buccal shaped body on the other, which left and right connecting elements are located on sides of the mouth laterally opposite each other and are adapted to clamp the lingual shaped body and the at least one buccal shaped body against the teeth.