KR101996181B1 - Snoring Prevention Mouthpiece - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mouthpiece for preventing snoring, which prevents snoring and sleep apnea syndrome generated in sleep to provide deep sleep, has an excellent wearing sensation, is worn or put off by anyone conveniently, and effectively secures a space to an airway in the oral cavity to prevent snoring and sleep apnea syndrome. To this end, the present invention comprises: a main body which is round to correspond to a shape of upper set of teeth in the upper jaw; a coupling groove unit in which the upper teeth or upper teeth and upper teeth gum lower part correspond to a set of teeth shape to be inserted and coupled to a center of the main body; a mounting unit which forms a round inclination inside the coupling groove unit and is mounted on a palate portion of a user; and a spacing protrusion unit which is round inwardly in a lower part of the main body to protrude downwardly, is round to correspond to lower teeth shapes in the lower jaw on the whole, and places lower teeth and lingual cutting surface of the lower jaw on an outer side of a border movement path of the lower jaw to make the upper jaw and the lower jaw be away from each other.

Description

{Snoring Prevention Mouthpiece}

The present invention relates to a mouthpiece for preventing snoring, and more particularly, to a mouthpiece for preventing snoring, and more particularly, to a mouthpiece for preventing snoring which can prevent snoring and sleep apnea occurring during sleeping so as to take a good night's sleep, The present invention relates to a mouthpiece for preventing snoring and preventing snoring and sleep apnea by securing a space for airway access.

The snoring is a relaxed study dog (relatively soft back part in the mouth of the mouth) and the number of the goose The breathing noise is caused by the vibration of the surrounding structures. The symptoms of snoring, apnea, insomnia, etc. appear during sleep.

Some very severe forms of snoring include temporary relaxation of the muscles during sleep, or severe obesity, which can temporarily block air passages, which in turn can prevent air from flowing into the lungs at all. This is called obstructive sleep apnea.

Conventionally, snoring has been regarded as only a bad sleeping habit, and it has been considered that there is no other medical meaning other than interrupting the sleeping of the sleeping person,

Recently, snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome have been reported to be associated with various physical and psychological disorders. Therefore, many studies on the development of snoring and sleep apnea are under way.

Most of the patients with snoring and sleep apnea have anatomical abnormalities that narrow the space of the upper airway, which starts from the nasal cavity and extends to the throat.

Obesity can result in fat accumulation in the neck area or enlargement of tissues such as the tongue and tonsil, which can reduce the space inside the neck and cause narrowing of the upper extremity, resulting in snoring and sleep apnea.

Often, these symptoms are seen in people with abnormally small jaws or short and thick necks.

In addition, when the function of the muscles around the pharynx is troubled and the force of the pharyngeal airway of the pharyngeal airway can not overcome the sound pressure in the chest by the diaphragm, snoring and sleep apnea occur.

The most common cause of snoring and sleep apnea in children is tonsillar hypertrophy and adenoid hypertrophy.

This causes severe drowsiness and fatigue during the daytime and often causes traffic accidents.

In addition, aggressive personality, irritability, anxiety, and depression symptoms may appear, and carbon dioxide accumulation may cause symptoms such as severe headache.

Pediatric patients may experience symptoms such as poor learning, delayed development, and long-lived speech due to breathing.

If the symptoms are not controlled and long-term apnea persists, it may cause arrhythmia, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, left ventricular failure, pulmonary disease (pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary heart, respiratory failure) by increasing the burden on the heart or lung.

There is also a report that snoring may cause or worsen diabetes or glaucoma, and sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction may also occur.

Snoring or apnea can be diagnosed and diagnosed by you, your spouse, or your family.

You can also determine the severity of snoring or apnea by examining how sleepy you are during the day.

Physical examinations can be used to measure body weight or BMI, or to look at the appearance of the face, especially the face and neck, along with nasal, oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal examinations.

In order to evaluate the accurate sleep, sleep polygraphy is performed.

While sleeping, it can measure breathing, pulse, motion, snoring, blood oxygen saturation, EEG, and other tests to detect the obstruction of the airway.

In order to confirm the obstruction of the airway, it is necessary to directly observe which part of the pharyngeal area is blocked by using a non-pharyngeal fibrosarge or to confirm it by radiographic examination.

Cranial measurement radiographs can be used to identify structural anomalies of the bone by identifying the anatomical indicators of the bone.

In the sleep polyp test, a tube is inserted through the nose and the whole sleep process is used to track which part is clogged.

Treatment methods can be divided into non - surgical methods and surgical methods.

Non-surgical treatment methods include sleeping side-by-side, reducing risk factors by weight loss, smoking cessation, smoking cessation, drug therapy, preventing tongue sagging through the oral cavity, And a way to prevent the collapse of soft tissue of the pharynx by supplying with airway.

Surgical treatment depends on the cause of snoring, including nasal surgery (correction of nasal septum and lower turbinate hypertrophy), pharyngeal surgery (partial mastectomy of the mucosa of the tonsils and oropharynx, Alcohol), tongue reduction surgery, head and neck skeletal surgery (post-traumatic ossification and hyoidrosis, bilateral maxillary sinus surgery).

The method of preventing the tongue from sagging behind the neck through the intraoral device has been used recently, since it does not require any additional operation and keeps the airway extended while sleeping.

Such an intraoral device is a device for preventing snoring by pulling the lower jaw joint by using a device that is put between the teeth by putting it in the mouth and sleeping.

Using this device, the pulling of the jaw joint makes the airway pass through the study dog and its associated larynx, tongue root, and tonsil farther apart, making the airway far wider, and inhaled for breathing during sleep The air is freely passed while avoiding the parts such as the nape of the stomach, the tongue root, the tonsil, etc., so that the research dog and the tonsil due to the passage of the air are completely blocked in advance.

Such an intraoral device has recently been widely used since it does not require any additional operation.

As such an intraoral device, there is a registered utility model 20-0461738 Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2006- 0089860.

1 and 2, the conventional snoring prevention device 100 has a shape of a mouthpiece, and includes a pair of upper and lower teeth 50 and a pair of lower teeth 60, When the upper and lower teeth 60 are inserted into the bite plate 101, the lower jaw can be naturally pulled forward so that the airway can be widened.

However, since the snoring prevention mechanism according to the related art is required to maintain the sleep state for several hours while the upper and lower teeth are fixed to the snoring prevention mechanism, it is not natural to maintain such a posture continuously, It gives a sense of rejection.

In particular, users who have awakened with such an unnatural posture have a problem that they are not able to recover even if they are in the morning due to the stress they have experienced during sleep, and are always tired and sleepy.

In addition, the conventional snoring prevention devices have various structural means in addition to the conventional snoring prevention devices.

In addition, there is a problem that the cost for medical treatment is high.

Therefore, anyone can easily wear only in the maxilla,

There is a need for an oral device which is excellent in wearing comfort and is easy to be detached and is relatively simple to manufacture

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] The present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a dental appliance which can be easily worn regardless of the form of teeth, The present invention provides a mouthpiece for preventing snoring and snoring that can prevent snoring and sleep apnea by securing a space for the user to effectively communicate with the airway through the mouth because the structure is simple and easy to manufacture.

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a mouthpiece for preventing snoring, comprising: a rounded body corresponding to a shape of an upper dentition of the upper and lower teeth; a lower tooth, a lower teeth and a lower tooth of the upper teeth in the center of the body, A lower portion of the lower portion of the lower portion of the main body and a lower portion of the lower portion of the lower portion of the lower portion of the mandible; Wherein the cutting surface is located on the outer side of the mandible relative movement path and is provided with spaced protrusions provided so that the maxilla and the mandible are spaced apart from each other.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the main body is provided to be inserted into the front teeth of the upper and lower teeth.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the spaced-apart projection part is provided so that the upper end of the front part of the mandible is located on the rounded inclined part of the lower part of the seating part so as to surround the inner side of the front part of the mandible.

In the present invention, it is preferable that the center of the spaced projection is opened.

In the present invention, the mouthpiece for preventing snoring is made of a self-polymerizing resin or a thermoplastic resin, and is hardened at a body temperature of 36 to 37 캜 to maintain strength and shape, and softened at 40 to 50 캜 .

In the present invention, it is preferable that the main body and the spaced-apart projection portion are made of synthetic resin, and the coupling groove portion is made of a thermoplastic resin.

The mouthpiece for snoring prevention according to the present invention can be easily worn regardless of the form of the teeth wholly or partially regardless of the shape of the teeth in the upper part of the mouth and can be easily removed during daily life Since the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, it is possible to effectively prevent snoring and sleep apnea by securing a space for the user to pass through the oral cavity.

1 is a perspective view of a snoring prevention mechanism according to the prior art;
Fig. 2 is a state of use in which the snoring prevention mechanism of Fig. 1 is installed on the wearer. Fig.
3 is a bottom perspective view showing a mouthpiece for snoring prevention according to the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a sectional view of Fig. 3; Fig.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the wearing state shown in Fig. 3; Fig.
FIG. 6 is a use state diagram showing a state in which the lower teeth are separated by a user after wearing in FIG. 5; FIG.
Fig. 7 is a use state diagram showing the in-situ state of the lower teeth after separation of Fig. 6; Fig.
8 is a bottom perspective view showing another embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a sectional view of Fig. 8; Fig.
10 is a sectional view of the wearing state of the worn state of Fig. 9;

Hereinafter, the mouthpiece for preventing snoring according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.

FIG. 3 is a bottom perspective view showing a mouthpiece for snoring prevention according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a sectional view of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the wearing state of the wearer of FIG. 3, FIG. 7 is a state diagram showing the in-situ state of the dorsal decidua after detachment of FIG. 6; FIG.

3 and 4, the mouthpiece for preventing snoring (hereinafter, referred to as a mouthpiece) 10 according to the present invention is provided with a rounded body 20 corresponding to the shape of the upper dentition of the upper and lower teeth.

The upper and lower teeth and the lower portion of the upper and lower teeth of the main body 20 are provided at the center thereof with engaging grooves 40, which are inserted into the tooth shape corresponding to the tooth shape.

A seating part (60) which is seated in a part of the user's vagina can be provided if the inside of the joining groove part (40) is round inclined.

The upper part of the lower part of the main body 20 has a round shape and protrudes downward to form a round corresponding to the shape of the mandibular mandibular lower limb. The lingual incisal side of the mandibular incisor is located outside the mandible relative movement path, Spaced protrusions 80 are provided to be spaced apart from each other.

In addition, the main body 20 is preferably provided with a round shape corresponding to the shape of the front teeth of the body to be inserted into the front teeth of the upper teeth.

Preferably, the spacing protrusion 80 is formed in a round shape so that the upper end of the front portion of the mandible is located at the round inclined portion 62 below the seating portion 60 so as to surround the inner surface of the front portion of the mandible Do.

In addition, the mouthpiece 10 for preventing snoring is preferably formed of a thermoplastic resin and is preferably cured at a body temperature of 36 to 37 ° C to maintain strength and shape, and softened at 40 to 50 ° C.

More preferably, the main body 20 and the spacing protrusions 80 are made of a synthetic resin material, and the coupling recesses 40 and the seating portions 60 may be formed of thermoplastic resin.

As shown in FIG. 5, the dental mouthpiece 10 according to the present invention is immersed in heated water at 40 to 50 DEG C before the user takes a sleep, Is soft and soft, attaching to the dentition of the maxilla.

At this time, as shown in FIG. 5, when the tooth is inserted into the joining groove portion 40 of the softened mouthpiece, it is smoothly worn.

Then, the wearing mouthpiece 10 is returned to its original shape while maintaining the original hardness as the temperature is lowered after wearing.

At this time, since the engaging groove 40 is hardened according to the tooth shape of the front teeth inserted into the engaging groove 40, the mouthpiece 10 is firmly fixed to the upper teeth.

The fixedly mounted mouthpiece 10 as described above can exercise freely within the range of movement of the maxilla and mandible as usual.

5, the upper protruding portion of the mandible covers the inner surface of the front portion of the mandible, and the upper portion of the mandible has a smoothly inclined round inclined portion 62 (see FIG. 5) ),

In case of unconsciousness during sleep, even when the mandible is retracted to the maximum extent, the mouth can not be completely closed, so that the user is constantly spaced apart from the maxilla and mandible at a constant distance.

Therefore, external air is introduced through the space that is easily and naturally spaced apart by the mouthpiece 10 when sleeping, and at the same time, the breathing space is secured by the spaced distance, thereby effectively preventing snoring and apnea symptoms.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 6, when the user opens his or her mouth at the time of daily life or sleep, if the upper and lower jaws are separated from each other and the mouth is closed within the radius of the natural upper and lower jaws,

As shown in FIG. 7, the upper portion of the mandibular mandibular first premolar is moved along the round inclined portion, and naturally the mandible is seated at a position as shown in FIG. 5, so that the mandible can be naturally directed forward.

In addition, the user can peel off the mouthpiece easily mounted with the mouthpiece 10 mounted on the upper upper teeth softened while the user is rubbing or drinking with water at 40 to 50 ° C in daily life after sleeping.

FIG. 8 is a bottom perspective view showing another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 9 is a sectional view of FIG. 8, and FIG. 10 is a sectional view of the wearing state of FIG.

The mouthpieces 10-1 according to another embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 8 to 10 as follows.

The mouthpiece 10-1 according to the present invention is substantially the same as the configuration and description of FIGS. 3 to 7 of the present invention, so that detailed description thereof will be omitted.

However, as shown in Figs. 8 to 10, an opening 82 is provided to open the center of the spaced projection.

Therefore, the outer air can be more easily circulated by the openings 82 of the spaced protrusions 80, thereby preventing the snoring of the user and preventing the snoring.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention as claimed in the claims. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

10,10-1: mouthpiece
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40: engagement groove portion 60: seat portion
62: round inclined portion 80:
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Claims (6)

A rounded body corresponding to the shape of the upper dentition of the maxilla;
An upper and lower teeth of the main body and a lower portion of the upper and lower teeth of the upper and lower teeth corresponding to a dental type,
A seating part which is seated in a part of a user's vagina when a round inclination is made inside the joining groove part;
A protruding protrusion protruding downward from the lower part of the main body to form a round corresponding to a shape of a mandibular mandibular lower limb and having a lingual side of the mandible located outside the mandibular limit movement path so that the maxilla and the mandible are spaced apart from each other; Lt; / RTI >
Characterized in that the mouthpiece is formed of a thermoplastic resin which hardens at a body temperature of 36 to 37 DEG C and maintains its strength and shape and softens at 40 to 50 DEG C.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the main body is provided so as to be inserted into the upper teeth of the upper and lower teeth.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the spaced-apart projecting portion is provided with an upper end of a lower incisal part located on a round inclined part of the lower part of the seating part so as to enclose an inner side of the lower incisor part.
4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
And the center of the spaced projection is open.
delete 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Wherein the body and the spaced apart protrusions are made of a synthetic resin material, and the engaging groove and the seating portion are made of a self-polymerizing resin or a thermoplastic resin.

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