| 摘要 |
The cheek pouch anchor, formed of a resilient filament, fits within a user's cheek pouch. The anchor dynamically spans a user's inter-occlusal space and lip opening as a user's jaws open and close. The anchor can be formed of inter-connected, conversely-adjustable loops to enable user adjustment of its span. It can stabilize a work piece, such as an airway, in a user's mouth. The cheek path airway fits a path between a user's lips and through the user's cheek pouch and rear-jaw gap, avoiding the user's bite. It provides supplemental air to a user's rear-mouth cavity independently of a user's nasal airways while a user's lips remain closed. It can be used in combination with mandibular jaw-control and tongue-control devices whereby the combination mitigates breathing restrictions in a user's nasal and throat airways. It can be manufactured in-line and folded by a user to fit the user's cheek pathway. |
| 主权项 |
1. A cheek pouch anchor, for placement within a user's cheek pouch, to transmit expansive and compressive forces between said anchor and soft tissues of a user's cheek pouch, and to maintain positioning in such user's cheek pouch while such user's jaws, inter occlusal space, and lips open and close, comprising:
A spring element
adapted to be placed within a user's cheek pouch, andadapted to compress under pressure from soft tissues of user's cheek pouch as a user's jaws close, andadapted to resiliently expand so as to form and maintain a span bridging across a user's inter occlusal space and a user's lip opening formed as a user's jaws and lips open and close, andsaid spring element having structural strength sufficient to maintain placement within a user's cheek pouch while a user's jaws, inter occlusal space and lips open and close, andsaid spring element having blunt surfaces that communicate expansive and compressive forces between said spring element and the soft tissues of a user's cheek pouch. |
