MANDIBULAR PROTRUSION DEVICE

A mandibular protrusion device for therapeutic mandibular protrusion in a patient, including a maxillary splint body on tooth crowns of lateral maxillary teeth and a mandibular splint body placed on tooth crowns of lateral mandibular teeth, both of which completely or partially cover the tooth crown...

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1. Verfasser: Schlieper, Jörg
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A mandibular protrusion device for therapeutic mandibular protrusion in a patient, including a maxillary splint body on tooth crowns of lateral maxillary teeth and a mandibular splint body placed on tooth crowns of lateral mandibular teeth, both of which completely or partially cover the tooth crowns thereof. An advancement device arranged on the two splint bodies including front engagement elements in the two lateral areas of the mandibular splint body and rear engagement elements in the two lateral areas of the maxillary splint body. Rear-side guide tracks and front-side guide tracks that form protrusion-controlling guide tracks on the front engagement elements are rear engagement elements respectively. The protrusion-controlling guide tracks of are designed based on a protrusion path determined individually for each patient during the protrusion movement into the therapeutic protrusion at the position of the guide tracks of at least one of the pairs of engagement elements.