CN1217640A - Jaw-joint protective device - Google Patents

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CN1217640A
CN1217640A CN 97194395 CN97194395A CN1217640A CN 1217640 A CN1217640 A CN 1217640A CN 97194395 CN97194395 CN 97194395 CN 97194395 A CN97194395 A CN 97194395A CN 1217640 A CN1217640 A CN 1217640A
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A jaw-joint protective device is provided for protecting teeth, lips, jaw, and other delicate structures of the vital cranial triad (VCT) from injury and/or for supporting the condyle of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in a relatively fixed position thereby stabilizing the jaw and the VCT during head contact activity, and/or permit the components of a VCT disorder to be realigned for proper healing. This device is an over the counter purchase, boil and bite jaw/joint protector providing maxillary and mandibular teeth seats for protection of the mouth and/or healing of the VCT. This invention provides for customized, over-the-counter availability that adds speech and airway capabilities to the device to facilitate sports participation.

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Jaw-joint protective device
The present invention relates to a kind of jaw joint protector, can take care of one's teeth, lip, other fragile structures of jaw joint and head comprise that cranium portion key Sanyuan District (VCT-Vital cranialtriad) is injury-free when motion and head contact condition.VCT comprises the skeleton and the organizational structure of remporomandibular joint (TMJ), the lower surface of the tempora tympanic bone of ear and stone shape temple bone.
Before the present invention, unusual common being ignored of VCT ignored, and mistaken diagnosis.Although as football, box in the contact sports, hockey in rugby and the contact karate, has the rules of many protection person, rules and equipment, and the VCT of head still needs due care.The use of common oral cavity health care device has reduced the oral cavity accidental injury.But in general the structure of oral cavity health care device has increased the jaw joint of fragility and the damage and the load forces of VCT member.Although have the unusual percentage ratio of VCT very high among the athlete of contact motion, its symptom is often out in the cold and fail to connect with the jaw joint injury.This according to estimates unusually very extensive, in seeking the crowd of dental care, the people who reaches 50% demonstrates them and has to a certain degree VCT malfunction.The suffered wound in this joint has more serious result and performance than the suffered wound of other any joint parts of health, and its symptom of back also can be influential to the athlete for a long time in conclusion of the competitions.People also do not further investigate in the suffered wound of kinestate this joint, and this problem is to a great extent by health, and motion and government organs are ignored.The seriousness of VCT damage mainly is because of its anatomical structure, the position of function and close brain.To the athlete that this fragile position attack was subjected to specialized training,, once caused the fracture damage that exceeds phenomenon in restriction as the boxer.Health organ must begin to concentrate one's energy to study the treatment of VCT damage, and nursing is repaired, and prevention work.
The VCT malfunction is to influence lower jaw to open, and chews, swallow, and the pathological conditions of the craniomandibular joint of other neurological's functions.The malfunction of common type is internal irregularity and structural failure.The reason that causes can be a head in the contact sports, chin, or jaw portion catches a packet, contingency, insurgent violence or just fall.Stressed, overwork, anxiety, ambient pressure and noise also can cause the VCT malfunction.Tooth comes off too early, and coming off of especially grinding one's teeth in sleep also can cause unusually.Compressing VCT position may cause the baby these malfunctions to occur during baby due, and this situation generally is to use that pliers is improper to be caused in that the baby is pulled out Shi doctor from mother's birth canal.
The VCT internal irregularity can have many symptoms, for example, and neck, pain around eyes and the ear, cracker or click that plate is arranged among the VCT, facial muscle tighten, and grind one's teeth in sleep, dental articulation improper (be the tooth loose contact or can not correctly contact), tinnitus obviously is easy to fatigue, irritability during physical exertion, agnogenic headache, and athlete oneself physically-draining of failing to discover.
A result of VCT malfunction is that jaw portion masseter is ached, and this can cause the malfunction of other decay property.If the VCT malfunction can not the early treatment, damage does not normally have reversible.
The Therapeutic Method that many correction TMJ malfunctions are arranged.U.S. Patent No. 4,568,280 have disclosed a kind of method of the TMJ of treatment malfunction, but it is molded in people's oral cavity to make the arciform cranium lower jaw of single tooth flush mounting with the thermoplastic of remould, and the position that mandibular bone is positioned at slightly forward is in not exclusively identical or non-identical state so that the condyle shape is dashed forward.
U.S. Patent No. 4,671,766 have disclosed the unusual method of another kind of treatment TMJ, this method utilizes each part all to have two parts of wing plate, and (one cooperates with maxillary, another cooperates with mandibular arch) orthotic device supports TMJ in the oral cavity formed, and two-part each wing plate all entered preposition and makes TMJ be in correct positioning to correct when button one's lip.
U.S. Patent No. 5; 152; 301 have proposed the method for another kind of protection TMJ; a kind of thermoplastic oral cavity health care device has wherein been proposed; the rear portion of this device has the rear portion occlusal pad bottom surface front end on lower jaw nipper and U-shaped basis can be separated in the bottom surface on basis, act on pressure on the TMJ and possible impulsive force with minimizing.
U.S. Patent No. 4; 810; 192 have proposed a kind of taking care of one's teeth, and lip and jawbone are injury-free and/or TMJ is remained on protector in the two-stage oral cavity of relatively-stationary position, and the present invention is the improvement to this device; the present invention is that a stage arrangement can be to bigger zone; the VCT position that promptly comprises TMJ provides better protection, and also has and can speak by sounding, reduces snoring; grit one's teeth the effect of parahypnosis such as grind one's teeth in sleep.
The object of the invention is to propose a kind of jaw treatment of joint disease and protector, by redefining the prominent lip of protecting user relatively with glenoid position of condyle shape, tongue; tooth; VCT, whole other oral cavity tissues of going up between the mandibular arch in the oral cavity, and jaw joint tissue.
This device comprises:
A) have the U-shaped base component of toothed portion and preceding toothed portion behind the bilateral, nipper is partly with the incorporate whole upper jaw and the lower jaw part that goes up on the mandibular arch in oral cavity that be fixed on, lower jaw part divides with respect to maxillar part and divides to the front lower place skew, thereby lower jaw is in the position of lordosis; B) chamber is impacted in the interlock in the last lower jaw on the basis part, wherein is full of the hard elastics material, can be by tooth and the absorption of this device and the diffusion impulsive force at palate joint and associated facial tissue; C) the maxillar part branch comprises the tongue side that is projected upwards by base component, lip side, and buccal side and the preceding toothed portion of the reinforcement that has the lip bead, and these sides and base component have together constituted the upper jaw groove that puts and protect maxillary tooth; D) be positioned at the tongue pad that the preceding toothed portion maxillar part of this device divides the tongue side, no longer need the palatine part, can make the tongue of user be in the tongue side of upper jaw nipper so that speech clearly; E) the lower jaw part branch comprises by the outstanding downwards tongue side of base component, lip side, and buccal side and the preceding toothed portion of the reinforcement lower jaw that has dark lip bead; These sides and base component have together constituted the lower jaw groove that puts and protect mandibular teeth, strengthen the preceding toothed portion of lower jaw mandibular arch is fixed on to the front lower place to outstanding position; F) be positioned at the functional air duct of incorporate jaw portion's front end from the canine tooth to the canine tooth, help to breathe expectoration and speech; Wherein going up the preceding toothed portion of reinforcement and the back toothed portion of lower jaw part is made by elastic thermoplastic, can spread and absorb the impulsive force that acts on the user head in the motion, the part that this device and dental surface directly contact can be softened when being heated to above human body temperature, the thermoplastic of meeting hardening is made during cooling, thereby can realize good fit in the installation site, the remainder of this device is then used hard elastomeric material manufacturing, even heat in being higher than the temperature water of human body, this class material can remain its hardness.
The invention still further relates to a kind of by the method for user with above-mentioned palate joint protective device installation in position; this method is included in the temperature that in the hot water this device is heated to above human body makes its some part softening; immediately it is inserted in the oral cavity of user; user is bitten base component; on base component, form the impression of tooth; thereby make it be hardened to hard attitude the cooling of this device then, keep the impression of tooth and the dental arch shape of user, so just realized the customization of this device.
Fig. 1 is the partial side view of head, shows the portion of tissue that function changes in the remporomandibular joint of having used jaw-joint protective device;
Fig. 2 is the front section view in oral cavity, shows the air duct hole or the expectoration hole of jaw-joint protective device, jaw not shown in the figures portion tissue;
Fig. 3 is the front view of protector;
Fig. 4 is the side view of protector;
Fig. 5 is the top view of protector;
Fig. 6 is the axonometric chart of protector from back to front;
Verified, use at the jaw-joint protective device of two kinds of different materials manufacturings of various objectives and not only can protect the oral cavity of user, but also can protect the cranium portion key Sanyuan District (VCT) and the organizational structure of user.The tissue that is commonly referred to as remporomandibular joint is expanded to cover in the definition of VCT structure organization.The present invention can remain on relatively-stationary position with lower jaw and condyle shape are prominent, thereby in the sports that the head contact is arranged, can make maxillary portion and VCT keep stable and/or make any VCT unusual organize normotopia again, the load forces that the jaw joint is subjected to when reducing head contact and/or sports or the impulsive force of health.
Although this device is simple in structure, to the skeleton and the basic organization of the fragility of head, jaw joint and the oral cavity protection effect that can offer the best.There is not the use adaptability problem in simple jaw-joint protective device of the present invention; be easily installed in the oral cavity of user and cooperate intact; user only needs this device heated in water and places the oral cavity then; downward this device of interlock; sting out the occlusal impression of tooth on the dental arch interlock shock surface of device, this process only needs several seconds.
For construction features and the superiority of understanding jaw-joint protective device of the present invention, simply introduce earlier the anatomical structure of the tissue that this device protects.
Figure 1 shows that wear this device after, be in the VCT structure of protected state.The head region that this device is protected is the oral cavity, and the oral cavity comprises the tooth that fixedly secures on maxillary and movable lower jaw, and lower jaw is located to form movable the connection with skull in remporomandibular joint (TMJ).Remporomandibular joint mainly is made of two skeletons: the mandibular bone 1 and ball-and-socket (glenoid fossa 3) joint that are connected with temple bone formation joint with spherical (condyle shape prominent 2).
The both sides of observer's head, temple bone have comprised the glenoid fossa 3 (being brain) of very thin fragility, articular fossa of temporal bone on this glenoid fossa.The ledge 5 in joint has formed the anterior tissue of glenoid fossa.It is prominent 2 to be positioned at the chondritic-condyle shape of the rear side of mandibular bone, and between the glenoid fossa 3 is the meniscus 4 (cartilage or barrier film) of TMJ.Also show auditory canal 6 among the figure, tempora tympanic bone 7a, b, c and posterior joint nest 8.Posterior joint nest 8 engages at 9 places with the front end upper surface of tempora tympanic bone.Except other vital tissues, also include audition and balanced controls in the tempora tympanic bone.Middle downside near the prominent middle part surface of condyle shape is the lower surface of stone shape temple bone, and it has held the main blood supply path-arteria carotis interna of and brain dried from the cranial nerve at the bottom of the brain.
Comprising and the various internal irregularity situations of the relevant VCT of motion damage under, head, jaw portion, or the facial hitting power that is subjected to is fiercelyed attack at the cranium portion key Sanyuan District tissue of fragility the condyle shape is prominent suddenly.This load forces may produce the fracture of the skeleton of the fragility that X-ray examination can find, dampens, and crush injury, or form the hernia of VCT soft tissue.So it is just not at all surprising that the athlete of VCT damage usually has the symptom of neurological and circulatory disturbance.These symptoms comprise headache, otalgia, and face ache, bloodshot eyes, to photosensitivity, myasthenia, extremely pain and numbness are vomitted, and dizzy, speech is discontinuous, and cacophonize and auditory dysesthesia also have many other clinical symptoms.
So in sports, also must be except that above-mentioned tissue to the upper jaw and lower jaw denture, gums, and tongue, lip and other oral cavity organs are protected.
According to the present invention, this device (Fig. 3 and shown in Figure 4) has adopted and can overcome usually because the structural design of the problem in tooth that the contact motion is caused and jaw joint.This device by the preceding toothed portion of strengthening with after being positioned at the bilateral at the upper jaw (mx) and lower jaw (md) denture place toothed portion forms, comprise lip side 10mx and 10md, tongue side 15, cheek side 11mx and 11md, tongue pad 12, and tongue locks 13.Jaw-joint protective device makes the prominent position to the front lower place that is repositioned at respect to condylar normal or centre position of lower jaw and condyle shape.In other words, make lower jaw extend the position that is in prognathism exactly.This device makes the occlusal surface of mandibular teeth be in the position of inclined to one side front lower place and form the interlock deviation with respect to maxillary tooth.This device also can form snap-lock, the relation between the last lower tooth when contact can be gone up lower tooth laterally, reverse and relative motion is reduced to a minimum.In other words, this device can be stable with jaw portion to greatest extent, lower jaw is locked in the position of extending forward.The position that lower jaw is in inclined to one side front lower place can form the anterior functional free space and the stressed attenuating space in jaw joint in conjunction with the use of this device.
Intensity Design owing to the exquisiteness that the last lower jaw part of this device is done, in this device, saved in the preventer of common oral cavity the palatine part that is positioned at before the soft palate of oral cavity commonly used, and the palatine in common unit part has weakening effect to the readability of language, often sounds resembling the reflection sound that is blocked.Lip one cheek side is located at the mucco-cheek fold place in oral cavity, the bump between connecting with the muscle of avoiding labial frenum and rear portion.
Figure 5 shows that the tongue surface of being strengthened by the tongue pad of the upper jaw nipper back from the canine tooth to the canine tooth, same, the mandibular border position of tongue is also strengthened by the lower jaw lock of front portion from the canine tooth to the canine tooth.
When this device is placed in the oral cavity, when making lower jaw be in the position of lordosis, the upper jaw lower jaw part that is combined into one can be protected the oral cavity and make that the condyle shape of VCT is prominent to be in extraordinary protectiveness and position that be beneficial to healing.The jaw location of the lower jaw of exquisite design is according to this device, the human motion physiology, and the condyle shape is dashed forward-glenoid fossa physiology, and stressed attenuating space and functional free space decide.
Can see that from Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 the design of jaw-joint protective device is the position that arcus dentalis inferior is remained on be separated from each other certain distance, leaves air flue 14 (or saliva hole) therebetween, so user can be breathed expectoration or talk easily according to the needs of motion.Anterior air flue 14 can also be used as and grasping a little, and jaw-joint protective device is taken out from the user mouth of injured or stupor.
Fig. 6 is the axonometric chart of the maxillary seen from lingual direction, and maxillary has the part of recessed formation tongue pad 12 of the band tapering of thickening at front end, and the tongue pad can help and support the tongue surface of nipper.Combine with anterior free air path 14, the tongue pad can make user wear the jaw-joint protective device speech, is beneficial to by the oral cavity and carries out active and passive breathing.
The invention still further relates to a kind of user and wear the method for wearing of aforementioned jaw-joint protective device.User or help other people of user, when being small children, can this device being heated to above human body temperature with hot water but being less than or equal to 100 ℃, make some part of this device softening as user, as designing requirement, immediately this device is inserted in the mouth of user then.User is bitten base component then, forms the impression of tooth on base component, utilizes tongue again, finger tip, and lip, the power of sucking and the pressure of oral cavity muscle reach firm cooperation.Then this device is taken out from the oral cavity, cooling, thus make this device be hardened to hard attitude.Cooling procedure only needs several seconds.This device can offer different potential user by the different size production in enormous quantities, as the man, and women and child.For example, this device can also utilize common injection molding technology to produce.
The occlusal crib of this device is general with there being resistance to pressure to be easy to be molded over chemically inert heavy-load type plastics manufacturing in the user oral cavity, as ethylene vinyl acetate.These class plastics must be able to soften when being heated to above human body temperature but being less than or equal to 100 ℃, can harden again again during cooling forming in the oral cavity of user.The body temperature of measuring in the oral cavity approximately is 37 ℃.Many materials can be designed to satisfy this softening and hardened requirement or exist in chemical industry.Natural rubber also can be used for making jaw-joint protective device of the present invention, this class rubber must be heavy-load type, and is nontoxic, chemically reactive not, and one of ordinary skill in the art is very familiar to this class rubber.
Be used as the normally different material of elastomeric material of the framework basis and the molding of last lower jaw nipper part of strengthening and bilateral posterior, utilize this different material, the remainder of this device can have the required strength character that plays a protective role.This class material generally is a thermoplastic, as synthetic rubber.A this elastomeric example is the Kraton material.Also can utilize natural rubber to make these elastic parts in the palate joint protective device of the present invention, but they must be heavy-load type, nontoxic, chemically reactive not, one of ordinary skill in the art is very familiar to this class rubber.One of ordinary skill in the art should know can be used for this device meet the other materials of American Dental Association to the regulation of oral cavity Material Used.
Jaw-joint protective device of the present invention is compared with common oral cavity health care device and is had many advantages.The present invention can absorb the impact to head, and the prominent position that is positioned at inclined to one side front lower place of condyle shape has been formed stressed attenuating space, can cushion the suffered impulsive force of VCT, and last lower jaw denture is played a protective role.Jaw-joint protective device also can eliminate the diaphragm of the TMJ that sustains damage and the condyle shape prominent-the glenoid fossa space is to the pressure of head; have better stability and prevent that the damaging displacement of lower jaw from touching the fragile skeleton of head; reduce the forward damage of tongue, and the unexpected lip wound that reduces " tooth is worn out lip ".
The athlete initiatively joins into sports or is in resting state, wear continuously jaw-joint protective device of the present invention can promote the condyle shape prominent-healing of glenoid fossa structure and the damage of other facial tissues.Owing to when user is cosily worn this device in the oral cavity, can utilize air duct clearly to talk and take food, can imagine that this device can be used to stablize dental arch, repair other facial and jaw tissues, so user can use this device as medical apparatus and instruments.In other words, jaw-joint protective device of the present invention can be reinvented, and helps to repair the condyle shape to dash forward-the concomitant damage of glenoid fossa, and VCT tissue and other facial skeletons damage.Depart from by the damaged tissue that makes condylar position and VCT; this device also can increase athletic actual physical ability output and strength of force, and this is that the athlete initiatively joins into sports or carries out common daily routines or be in another reason that resting state can be worn this device.This device can also be used for increasing air mobile and the improvement nowed forming thereby the minimizing snoring of palatine when sleep.Wear this device and also can reduce gritting one's teeth and grinding one's teeth in sleep when sleeping.
In a word, wear jaw-joint protective device of the present invention continuously may cause the sports of damage to head the time and can improve safety participating in.

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1, first and second kinds of material manufacture of a kind of usefulness is used to protect the user lip; tooth and the palate joint protective device that comprises other head delicate tissue of cranium portion key Sanyuan District (VCT); VCT is by remporomandibular joint; the tempora tympanic bone; the skeleton and the structure organization of the dependency structure among the whole upward mandibular arch in stone shape temple bone lower surface and oral cavity are formed; it is characterized in that the palate joint protective device comprises:
A) have the U-shaped base component of the preceding toothed portion of tooth portion and reinforcement behind the bilateral, nipper is partly with the incorporate whole upper jaw and the lower jaw part that goes up on the mandibular arch in oral cavity that be fixed on, lower jaw part divides with respect to maxillar part and divides to the front lower place skew, thereby lower jaw is in the position of lordosis
B) chamber is impacted in the dental arch interlock in the lower jaw part on the base component, its all by can spread with Absorption at lower jaw, the upper jaw, the hard elastics material of the impulsive force of head and facial tissue, promptly first kind of material made, the remainder of this device utilizes thermoplastic, i.e. second kind of material manufacture, this material are heated to above human body temperature but can soften when being less than or equal to 100 ℃, can hardening during cooling, so it is good fit that this device can be realized in the installation site
C) the maxillar part branch comprises the tongue side that is projected upwards by base component, lip side, and buccal side and the preceding toothed portion of the reinforcement that has the lip bead, and these sides and base component have together constituted the upper jaw groove that puts and protect maxillary tooth,
D) be positioned at the tongue pad that the preceding toothed portion maxillar part of this device divides the tongue side, it can play the support effect to upper jaw nipper, and makes the tongue of user be in the tongue side of upper jaw nipper so that talk clearly,
E) the lower jaw part branch comprises by the base component front lower place to outstanding tongue side, the lip side, and the buccal side and have the reinforcement lower jaw of dark lip bead before toothed portion; These sides and base component have together constituted the lower jaw groove that puts and protect mandibular teeth, strengthen the preceding toothed portion of lower jaw and play the supporting guide lower jaw, make lower jaw be in the exquisite prognathic position of designing, and form the stressed buffering and rebound space in palate joint, and
F) help the functional air duct of incorporate jaw portion's front end from the canine tooth to the canine tooth breathing and talk.
Wherein, the back toothed portion of toothed portion and both sides is keeping the structure and the shape of whole device before the reinforcement of last lower jaw part, and diffusion and Absorption are in the impact of head.
2, device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the hard elastics material is the thermoplasticity synthetic rubber.
3, device as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, functional path is air duct or expectoration hole.
4, device as claimed in claim 1; it is characterized in that; the forward interlock marking of this device basic that is subjected to maxillary tongue advance expenditure support has formed snap-lock with the preceding toothed portion of reinforcement that mandibular arch has dark lip bead; even tongue pad small-sized also can keep the stability that locks; although snap-lock can keep the stability and the intensity of tooth engaged; but the position that is in the tongue contacts side surfaces of nipper in order to ensure tongue when wearing jaw treatment of joint disease and protector is beneficial to pronunciation and speech, and the size of tongue pad reduces.
5, device as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, hard elastics material of this device and thermoplastic can keep locking in engagement surface with going up the lower jaw dental arch, will make palatine have stability with traumatic jaw displacement like this for horizontal, lower jaw can also be remained on the prognathism position of reorientating, and the globality that keeps this device in equipped heating and interlock stage.
6, device as claimed in claim 1; it is characterized in that; functional air duct has bigger air mass flow than common oral cavity health care device, also has the active air flow and the free space that can carry out clear speech, and need not use the palatine part of common oral cavity health care device.
7, a kind of jaw joint for the treatment of is unusual and suffer from the method for other facial injury of this unusual people; being included in maybe needs to correct this class and wears device as claimed in claim 1 when unusual when joining into sports; thereby can remain on its POF with remporomandibular joint and palatine tissue are stable, and keep the sufficiently long time to play the effect of protection and treatment.
8, a kind of the described device of claim 1 is fitted in method in the user oral cavity, comprising this device being heated to above human body temperature but being less than or equal to 100 ℃ in hot water makes some part of this device softening, immediately this device is inserted in the oral cavity of user, user is bitten base component, forms the marking of tooth on base component, utilizes tongue, lip, the power of sucking and the pressure of oral cavity muscle then with this device cooling, thereby make this device be hardened to hard attitude.
9, a kind of treatment snoring, the method for parahypnosis such as grit one's teeth and grind one's teeth in sleep comprises allowing the people who suffers from these parahypnosiss wear device as claimed in claim 1.
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