Pat. No. 6,467,485 to Schmidt shows a device made of a flexible material which is placed over the soft palate in an attempt to inhibit vibration of the soft palate. U.S. Pat. No. 4,669,459 to Spiewak shows an intraoral device which seeks to eliminate snoring by positioning a button...
This is explained by the Ovassapian airway, which is a modified oral airway device designed for use with a flexible fiberoptic laryngoscope. The LJT oral airway device 101f may be removed without disconnecting or displacing the endotracheal tube, and the oral airway device has only half a ...
the denture base and alveolar crest. At this time, both abutment teeth and alveolar crest bear the biting force, to protect abutment teeth. Magnetic attachment refers to adsorb the denture on the abutments using the magnets on the abutments, to stabilize and fix partial denture. It is...
objective, several tools were introduced to assist in the therapeutic decision, among them drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE). This procedure, introduced in 1991, allows a dynamic assessment of flutter and collapse sites using a flexible nasopharyngoscopy to visualize the UA under sedation [17]....
The possible modalities are (1) removable partial dentures with flexible denture bases (stressbreakers), (2) use of a floating denture base impression technique, (3) use of a mucofunctional impression technique to relate the denture base to the framework, and (4) use of an endosseous implant...