Mouth Guard

摘要

Mouth guards of varying designs. The mouth guard is generally moldable and has non-planar biting surfaces. In other embodiments, the mouth guard has base members or flanges that have means for retaining medicaments and the like. Other versions have thermochromic elements selected to allow color changes at desired temperatures.

主权项

1. A mouth guard, comprising:
a moldable base member configured to receive at least a portion of the user's teeth, the base member including an anterior portion, a posterior portion, a labial-buccal side, a lingual side, and first and second non-planar biting surfaces positionable between occlusal surfaces of a user's upper and lower teeth; and a moldable flange configured to form a barrier between the teeth and the soft oral tissue of a user and to conform to a plurality of frenae in the user's mouth, the flange extending superiorly or inferiorly from the anterior portion, the posterior portion, the labial-buccal side, or the lingual side of the base member; wherein the base member and the flange comprise a thermoplastic configured to be moldable at a glass transition temperature that is greater than a temperature in the user's mouth, the thermoplastic including a first non-toxic thermochromic element configured to display a first color when a temperature of the thermoplastic is greater than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic.