Dentek Oral Care, Inc.

Josef V Knutzen

Joseph R Martone

Justin E McDonough

Robert W Fusi, Ii

Janette Suh Edelstein

Frank M Lesniak

Steve Blanchard

Jessica Rica Lin

Yves Behar

Joshua Morenstein

Christopher Hibmacronan

Harold D Ochs

Logan Ray

Jessica Rioca Lin

Lori Dee Kumar

Richard J Fougere

Alexander Lobovsky

A dental guard and tray, includes a thermoplastic dental guard, and a generally rigid tray fittingly receiving the dental guard during heating and fitting of the dental guard to teeth of the user. The dental guard includes a pair of bite pads positionable below rear teeth of the user and a connection band that connects between the bite pads and is positionable behind upper or lower front teeth of the user. The rigid tray includes a pair of bite pad supports and a connecting arc, the bite pad supports each providing a planar depression or well for receiving one of the bite pads, the connecting arc spanning between the bite pads and having fingers located proximate a midpoint of the arc and configured to angle rearwardly and upwardly from the connecting arc so as to underlie and receive the band when the dental guard is received onto the tray.

Dental guard and tray and method of forming such

A dental guard for treatment of bruxism in a human dental arch. The dental guard comprises an elastically deformable body having a front band portion and a pair of molar portions contiguous with and extending from the ends of the front band portion. The distance between distal ends of the molar portions is configured to differ from the width of the human dental arch. The front band portion and molar portions form a U-shape configured and may have less curvature than a curvature of the human dental arch. The body includes a front side wall and an upper side wall extending at an angle from a longitudinal edge of the front side wall. The body is adapted to be positioned to fit over a plurality of teeth such that the inner surfaces of the front wall and the upper wall engage occlusal surfaces of the posterior teeth. When the jaws are closed the body at least partially conforms to the outer surfaces and occlusal surfaces of differently sized and differently shaped teeth corresponding to different people during use.

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Allendale, NJ, United States of America

Josef V Knutzen