CN215960381U

CN215960381U - Orthodontic device

Info

Publication number: CN215960381U
Application number: CN202120425362.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姚峻峰; 赵晓磊
Original assignee: Shanghai Zhengya Dental Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Zhengya Dental Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-02-26
Filing date: 2021-02-26
Publication date: 2022-03-08
Anticipated expiration: 2031-02-26

Abstract

The utility model provides an orthodontic device, which comprises a shell-shaped tooth appliance and a vibrator, wherein the shell-shaped tooth appliance comprises a plurality of cavities for accommodating a plurality of teeth, and the cavities are provided with geometric structures for gradually positioning the teeth from initial positions to target correction positions; the shell-shaped tooth appliance is provided with a bearing part, and the vibrator is borne on the bearing part; the kinetic energy generated by the vibration of the vibrator is transmitted to a plurality of teeth through the shell-shaped dental appliance. The orthodontic appliance provided by the utility model can accelerate the correction effect while the teeth are gradually changed from the initial position to the target correction position according to the correction plan, shortens the correction period, and is comfortable for a patient to wear for a long time and has small foreign body sensation in the mouth.

Description

Orthodontic device

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the field of medical appliances, and relates to an orthodontic device.

Background

The invisible tooth appliance is more and more accepted and used by the majority of orthodontic patients due to the advantages of beautiful appearance, sanitation, convenient taking and wearing and better correction effect. The invisible tooth appliance is a shell-shaped structure which is made of transparent high polymer materials and can wrap teeth, can be used for correcting some targeted cases, has a better correcting effect, but the application of the invisible tooth appliance is influenced by the structure and the material of the invisible tooth appliance or the force action generated by interaction with the teeth, and can generate the phenomenon of correcting force attenuation after a patient wears for a certain time. The prior art adopts methods for assisting in accelerating tooth correction, such as infrared light acceleration, vibration acceleration and the like, but the effect of auxiliary acceleration needs to be achieved by using an orthodontic acceleration device additionally to achieve the acceleration effect, most orthodontic accelerating devices are devices which are additionally worn in mouths and have larger volumes, and patients can do orthodontic treatment according to the requirements of accelerating orthodontic treatment, the orthodontic device is worn in the mouth in a specified time period for accelerated correction, the acceleration mode needs the patient to wear the orthodontic device and then wear the orthodontic acceleration device, the accelerated correction of teeth is realized, the operation of the patient is inconvenient, and when the orthodontic accelerating device is worn in the mouth, a patient needs to bear discomfort of effects (such as vibration) generated by the orthodontic accelerating device, and the orthodontic accelerating device has larger volume, so that the patient can wear the orthodontic accelerating device for a certain time, and the discomfort in the whole orthodontic accelerating process is increased.

Therefore, research into an orthodontic appliance with correcting and accelerating correcting effects simultaneously, and the accelerating device is small, so that when the orthodontic appliance is worn in the mouth of a patient for a long time, the foreign body sensation in the mouth is small, and the orthodontic appliance has important significance.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to overcome the defects in the prior art, and provide an orthodontic appliance, which can accelerate the correction effect while gradually changing teeth from an initial position to a target correction position according to a correction plan, shorten the correction period, and ensure that a patient is comfortable to wear for a long time and has small foreign body sensation in the mouth.

The utility model solves the technical problems through the following technical scheme:

an orthodontic apparatus comprising a shell-shaped dental appliance comprising a plurality of cavities for receiving a plurality of teeth, the cavities having a geometry that gradually positions the plurality of teeth from an initial position to a target correction position; the shell-shaped tooth appliance is provided with a bearing part, and the vibrator is borne on the bearing part; the kinetic energy generated by the vibration of the vibrator is transmitted to the plurality of teeth through the shell-shaped tooth appliance.

Further, the bearing part is arranged on the outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance, and the vibrator is fixed on the bearing part.

Further, the bearing part and the shell-shaped tooth appliance are integrally formed, and the vibrator is at least partially accommodated in the cavity structure for forming the cavity structure on the outer surface of the shell-shaped tooth appliance.

Further, the bearing part is detachably connected with the shell-shaped tooth appliance, and the vibrator is fixedly connected with the bearing part.

Further, be provided with the carrier portion mount pad on the shell form tooth is rescued and is had good luck, the carrier portion pass through the carrier portion mount pad with the shell form tooth is rescued and is dismantled the connection.

Further, still include vibration conduction portion, vibration conduction portion is fixed in on the shellliform tooth orthopedic ware, vibration conduction portion's one end with the vibrator is connected, and the other end extends to vibration target location department.

Further, the vibration conduction part is in a long strip shape and is attached to the dental appliance along the dental arch direction of the dental appliance.

Further, the vibration conduction part is fixedly connected with the shell-shaped tooth appliance through a plurality of fixed connection points, and the rest part of the vibration conduction part is not contacted with the shell-shaped dental appliance.

Further, the vibration conduction part is fixedly connected to the shell-shaped dental appliance by any one of bonding, welding, and riveting.

Further, the vibrator is provided on a labial/buccal side, and/or a lingual side of the shell-shaped dental appliance.

Further, the vibrator is disposed adjacent to a gingival margin side of the shell-shaped dental appliance.

Further, the vibration frequency of the vibrator is 50Hz to 110 Hz.

Further, the vibrator comprises a vibration module, a communication module and a control module, wherein the vibration module and the communication module are electrically connected with the control module.

Further, the communication module is in wireless communication connection with an external processor for setting vibration parameters of the vibrator, and the vibration parameters at least comprise vibration frequency and vibration time.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that at least:

the orthodontic device provided by the utility model comprises the shell-shaped tooth appliance and the vibrator, wherein the shell-shaped tooth appliance can align teeth, so that the teeth are gradually positioned to a target correcting position from an initial position; and the vibrator that sets up can be corrected with higher speed the tooth on wearing shell form tooth and correcting the basis of ware, improves osteoblast and osteoclast's activity, strengthens its metabolic capability to the removal of tooth is corrected with higher speed, and the efficiency is corrected in the improvement and is shortened and correct the cycle.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an orthodontic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view along a-a' of fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of another orthodontic apparatus in accordance with an embodiment of the utility model.

Fig. 4 is a schematic view illustrating a structure of another orthodontic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the composition of a vibrator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. As used herein, the word "comprising" and similar words are intended to mean that the element or item listed before the word covers the element or item listed after the word and its equivalents, but does not exclude other elements or items.

When the invisible tooth appliance is worn on teeth, the teeth are aligned through the appliance design structure of the invisible tooth appliance and the elastic deformation of the invisible tooth appliance, so that the teeth are gradually positioned to a target appliance position from an initial position; however, the tooth correcting period is long, and the patient needs to wear the tooth correcting device for a long time to achieve a continuous correcting effect. The invisible tooth appliance with the vibrator promotes the activity of osteocytes on the basis of ensuring the correction performance of the shell-shaped tooth appliance, thereby shortening the correction period.

Examples

An orthodontic apparatus 10, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, includes a shell-shaped dental appliance 101 and a vibrator 102, the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 including a plurality of cavities for receiving a plurality of teeth, the cavities having a geometry for gradually positioning the plurality of teeth from an initial position to a target correction position; the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 is provided with a bearing part 1011, and the vibrator 102 is borne on the bearing part 1011; the kinetic energy generated by the vibration of the vibrator 102 is transmitted to the plurality of teeth through the shell-shaped dental appliances 101. The shell-shaped tooth appliance 101 of the orthodontic device 10 includes a plurality of cavities for receiving or wrapping a plurality of teeth, and the cavities interact with the teeth to generate an acting force, so that the plurality of teeth are gradually positioned from an initial position to a target correction position according to a correction plan. The vibrator 102 in the orthodontic device 10 generates kinetic energy when vibrating, and the kinetic energy generated can be transmitted to a plurality of corresponding teeth through the shell-shaped tooth appliance 101, so that the effect of accelerating tooth correction is achieved. The vibrator 102 is supported on a bearing part 1011 arranged on the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, the bearing part 1011 can be arranged on the outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and the vibrator 102 is fixed on the bearing part 1011, so that the positions of the vibrator 102 relative to the bearing part 1011 and the vibrator 102 relative to the shell-shaped dental appliance 1011 can be relatively unchanged, the vibrator 102 is ensured to be basically unchanged from the installation position when vibrating every time, and the acceleration correction effect on teeth needing to be corrected is more pertinent when the teeth are accelerated to be corrected.

In another embodiment, the bearing portion 1011 of the orthodontic device 10 is integrally formed with the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and is a cavity structure formed on the outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and the vibrator 102 is at least partially accommodated in the cavity structure. More specifically, the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 is provided with a cavity structure protruding from the outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, that is, the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 can be prepared by a hot pressing film method or by direct 3D printing, so that the bearing portion 1011 and the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 are integrally formed, the preparation is convenient, when the vibrator 102 is installed, the vibrator 102 can be directly and fixedly installed in the bearing portion 1011 of the cavity structure, the relative position between the vibrator 102 and the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 can be stabilized by the arrangement method, the change of the relative position due to the taking and wearing of the appliance can be avoided, the action position between the vibrator and the tooth to be accelerated can be always kept relatively stable during the accelerated tooth acceleration and correction process, the accelerated tooth correction effect is balanced during the tooth correction and accelerated tooth correction process, and the reconstruction of bone cells can be maintained to be constant in vibration effect, the unexpected correction effect caused by deviation from the correction plan due to accelerated correction is avoided.

In another embodiment, the bearing part 1011 is detachably connected with the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and the vibrator 102 is fixedly connected to the bearing part 1011, so that the bearing part 1011 can be selectively arranged in the area where the dental appliance needs to be accelerated according to the actual situation, and the bearing part 1011 can be repeatedly used on the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 worn by the next pair, thereby reducing the overall production cost of the orthodontic device 10 and effectively achieving the effect of maximum resource utilization rate.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, a bearing portion mounting seat 10111 is provided on the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and the bearing portion 1011 is detachably connected to the shell-shaped dental appliance 101 through the bearing portion mounting seat 10111; when this kind of setting mode makes bearing part 1011 install and rescues ware 101 at shell form tooth, the area of contact of installation is bigger, and is more stable, is difficult for droing from shell form tooth rescues ware 101 to influence the acceleration of tooth and rescure, what even more causes patient's mistake to eat, causes the production of medical malpractice.

In another embodiment, the vibrator 102 is disposed on the labial/buccal side, and/or lingual side of the shell-shaped dental appliance 101. More specifically, the vibrator 102 may be disposed on the tongue side, which is more invisible and beautiful, and when the patient wears the mouth, the wearing beauty is improved on the premise of ensuring the correction effect and accelerating the correction effect. In another embodiment, the vibrator 102 may also be disposed on the labial/buccal side, when disposed on the buccal side, the corresponding tooth is the tooth of the posterior dental zone, when the patient speaks in the mouth, it is not easy to detect and the aesthetic property is affected, of course, the vibrator 102 may also be disposed on the labial side of the corresponding tooth of the anterior dental zone, and the tooth of the anterior dental zone may be specifically accelerated and corrected. The various forms of the above-mentioned setting can be selected according to the actual demand of correcting of patient. In addition, the vibrator 102 is disposed on each corresponding tooth of the shell-shaped dental appliance 101, and may be selectively disposed on a tooth that needs to be subjected to accelerated dental correction.

In another embodiment, vibrator 102 is positioned adjacent to the gingival margin side of shell-shaped dental appliance 101. The arrangement mode enables the vibrator 102 to be closer to the tooth root, so that the activity of cells around the alveolar bone is increased, and the cells are transmitted to the tooth root when the tooth crown receives vibration, so that osteoblasts and osteoclasts are reconstructed, the moving effect of the tooth root in the alveolar bone is accelerated, and the purpose of accelerating correction is achieved.

In another embodiment, the vibrator 102 has a vibration frequency of 50Hz to 110 Hz. The vibration frequency in this scope can be to osteoblast and osteoclast when receiving the power of correcting, and the liveness is the highest to the patient is when wearing the just abnormal device that has the vibrator, and the sense of discomfort is less in the mouth, can not lead to the sense of discomfort reinforcing in the mouth because vibration frequency is too big, also can not reach the effect of correcting with higher speed because vibration frequency undersize.

In another embodiment, the vibrator 102 includes a vibration module 1021, a communication module 1023 and a control module 1022, and the vibration module 2021 and the communication module 1023 are electrically connected to the control module 1022. More specifically, the control module 1022 controls the vibration module 1021 to vibrate, and also controls the communication module 1023 to be in communication connection with an external processor. In a more preferred embodiment, the communication module is in wireless communication connection with an external processor for setting vibration parameters of the vibrator, wherein the vibration parameters at least comprise vibration frequency and vibration time. Wherein, vibration frequency and vibration time can be according to accelerateing and correcting the demand and set for, and external processor for example can be APP on the cell-phone handles the end, sets for when to vibrate and accelerate and correct time, the mode of vibration, the frequency isoparametric of vibration, and the patient can carry out the regulation and the predetermined setting of parameter according to the correction demand of reality and vibration bearing degree. In addition, the communication module can also collect vibration time and the effect of tooth accelerated movement under vibration, and feeds the accelerated correction information back to the external processor, so that the accelerated correction information is collected and summarized to obtain data accumulation of accelerated correction parameters under different case types, and the data accumulation can be provided for subsequent patients to provide guidance basis when accelerated correction is carried out after classification according to the case types.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the orthodontic device 20 further includes a vibration conducting portion 203, the vibration conducting portion 203 is fixed to the shell-shaped dental appliance 201, and one end of the vibration conducting portion 203 is connected to the vibrator 202 and the other end thereof extends to a vibration target position. In another preferred embodiment, the vibration transmitting portion 203 has an elongated shape and is disposed to be attached to the shell-shaped dental appliance 201 in the direction of the dental arch of the shell-shaped dental appliance 201. Specifically speaking, vibrator 202 sets up on corresponding shell form tooth of parcel single tooth rescues ware 201, and vibrator 202 transmits kinetic energy to a plurality of teeth through vibration conduction portion 203, and this kind of mode of setting can reduce the number of setting of vibrator 202 on shell form tooth rescues ware 201, and reduce cost can realize that a plurality of teeth accelerate simultaneously and rescue. In addition, the vibration conduction part 203 can set the vibration target position according to the actual orthodontic requirement, if tooth acceleration correction is needed to be performed on the left rear tooth area teeth, at the moment, the vibrator 202 is arranged at the lingual side of the first molar, one end of the vibration conduction part 203 is connected to the mesial end of the vibrator 202, the other end of the vibration conduction part extends to the first front molar in the mesial direction, the vibration conduction part 203 is connected to the far-middle end side of the vibrator 202 and extends to the second molar or the third molar in the far-middle direction, and finally the effect of vibration correction acceleration of the rear tooth area teeth is achieved at the same time.

In another embodiment, the vibration conduction portion 203 is fixedly connected to the shell-shaped dental appliance 201 via a plurality of fixed connection points, and the rest of the vibration conduction portion is not in contact with the shell-shaped dental appliance 201. This kind of arrangement makes the fixed department that vibration conduction portion 203 and shelly tooth were rescued with 201 increase for vibration conduction portion 203 and shelly tooth are rescued with 201 relative position and are fixed, and both wholeness increases, can not lead to terminal vibration effect decay because vibration conduction portion 203 extends the overlength, and the effect that the orthodontic was rescued is influenced to the influence. In another preferred embodiment, the vibration conduction part 203 is fixedly connected to the shell-shaped dental appliance 201 by any one of bonding, welding or riveting, and the fixing form can be selected according to actual requirements.

In another embodiment, the vibrator 202 is disposed on the labial/buccal side, and/or lingual side of the shell-shaped dental appliance 201. More specifically, vibrator 202 can set up at the lingual side, and this kind of setting mode is more stealthy, pleasing to the eye, and when the patient worn in the oral cavity, under the prerequisite of guaranteeing to correct the effect and correcting the effect with higher speed, the aesthetic property of wearing is improved. In another embodiment, the vibrator 202 may also be disposed on the labial/buccal side, when disposed on the buccal side, the corresponding tooth is the tooth in the posterior dental zone, when the patient speaks in the mouth, it is not easy to perceive and the aesthetic property is affected, and of course, the vibrator 202 may also be disposed on the labial side of the corresponding tooth in the anterior dental zone, and the tooth in the anterior dental zone may be specifically accelerated and corrected. The various forms of the above-mentioned setting can be selected according to the actual demand of correcting of patient.

In another embodiment, vibrator 202 is positioned adjacent to the gingival margin side of shell-shaped dental appliance 201. The arrangement mode enables the vibrator 202 to be closer to the tooth root, so that the activity of cells around the alveolar bone is increased, and the cells are transmitted to the tooth root when the tooth crown receives vibration, so that osteoblasts and osteoclasts are reconstructed, the moving effect of the tooth root in the alveolar bone is accelerated, and the purpose of accelerating correction is achieved.

In another embodiment, the vibrator 202 has a vibration frequency of 50Hz to 110 Hz. The vibration frequency in this scope can be to osteoblast and osteoclast when receiving the power of correcting, and the liveness is the highest to the patient is when wearing the just abnormal device that has the vibrator, and the sense of discomfort is less in the mouth, can not lead to the sense of discomfort reinforcing in the mouth because vibration frequency is too big, also can not reach the effect of correcting with higher speed because vibration frequency undersize.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the vibrator 102 includes a vibration module 1021, a communication module 1023 and a control module 1022, and the vibration module 2021 and the communication module 1023 are electrically connected to the control module 1022. More specifically, the control module 1022 controls the vibration module 1021 to vibrate, and also controls the communication module 1023 to be in communication connection with an external processor. In a more preferred embodiment, the communication module is in wireless communication connection with an external processor for setting vibration parameters of the vibrator, wherein the vibration parameters at least comprise vibration frequency and vibration time. Wherein, vibration frequency and vibration time can be according to accelerateing and correcting the demand and set for, and external processor for example can be APP on the cell-phone handles the end, sets for when to vibrate and accelerate and correct time, the mode of vibration, the frequency isoparametric of vibration, and the patient can carry out the regulation and the predetermined setting of parameter according to the correction demand of reality and vibration bearing degree. In addition, the communication module can also collect vibration time and the effect of tooth accelerated movement under vibration, and feeds the accelerated correction information back to the external processor, so that the accelerated correction information is collected and summarized to obtain data accumulation of accelerated correction parameters under different case types, and the data accumulation can be provided for subsequent patients to provide guidance basis when accelerated correction is carried out after classification according to the case types.

While specific embodiments of the utility model have been described above, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that this is by way of example only, and that the scope of the utility model is defined by the appended claims. Various changes and modifications to these embodiments may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the utility model, and these changes and modifications are within the scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. An orthodontic apparatus comprising a shell-shaped dental appliance and a vibrator, the shell-shaped dental appliance comprising a plurality of cavities for receiving a plurality of teeth, the cavities having a geometry that gradually positions the plurality of teeth from an initial position to a target correction position; the shell-shaped tooth appliance is provided with a bearing part, and the vibrator is borne on the bearing part; the kinetic energy generated by the vibration of the vibrator is transmitted to the plurality of teeth through the shell-shaped tooth appliance.

2. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the carrier is disposed on an outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance and the vibrator is secured to the carrier.

3. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the carrier is integrally formed with the shell-shaped dental appliance as a cavity structure formed in an outer surface of the shell-shaped dental appliance, the vibrator being at least partially received within the cavity structure.

4. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the carrier is removably connected to the shell-shaped dental appliance and the vibrator is fixedly connected to the carrier.

5. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the shell dental appliance has a carrier mount thereon, the carrier being removably connected to the shell dental appliance via the carrier mount.

6. The orthodontic device of any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a vibration conducting portion fixed to the shell-shaped dental appliance, the vibration conducting portion having one end connected to the vibrator and the other end extending to a vibration target position.

7. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 6, wherein the vibration transmitting portion is elongated and positioned to conform to the shell-shaped dental appliance in the direction of an arch of the appliance.

8. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 7, wherein the vibration transmitting portion is fixedly connected to the shell dental appliance by a plurality of fixed connection points, the remainder of the vibration transmitting portion being free of contact with the shell dental appliance.

9. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 6, wherein the vibration transmitting portion is fixedly attached to the shell-shaped dental appliance by any one of bonding, welding or riveting.

10. The orthodontic apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the vibrator is provided on a labial/buccal side, and/or a lingual side of the shell-shaped dental appliance.

11. The orthodontic apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the vibrator is disposed adjacent a gingival margin side of the shell-shaped dental appliance.

12. The orthodontic apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the vibrator has a vibration frequency of 50Hz to 110 Hz.

13. The orthodontic apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the vibrator includes a vibration module, a communication module, and a control module, the vibration module and the communication module each being electrically connected to the control module.

14. The orthodontic apparatus of claim 13, wherein the communication module is in wireless communication with an external processor configured to set vibration parameters of the vibrator, the vibration parameters including at least a vibration frequency and a vibration time.