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Removable device for delivering beneficial agents orally

  • US 5,194,003 A
  • Filed: 01/03/1992
  • Issued: 03/16/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A device that is adapted to be suspended and held in place with an oral cavity including an upper jaw and were jaw by a plurality of teeth of one of said jaws and/or tissues adjoining the teeth and from which a beneficial agent is released into the oral cavity in a sustained manner comprising:

  • (a) a partial overlay comprising a first section that is form fitting to a first segment of teeth on one of said jaws, a second section that is form fitting to a second segment of teeth on said one of said jaws, said first segment being spaced from said second segment and an interconnecting middle section; and

    (b) at least one beneficial agent reservoir that is carried on an exterior surface of the partial overlay, extends laterally of the labial, buccal or lingual surface of the teeth, is adapted to hold the beneficial agent and has a multiplicity of open-agent-release orifices that permit increase of saliva into the reservoir to dissolve the agent from the reservoir.

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