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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Carl S Hoffman, Cheshire, CT (US);
Assignee:
TP Laboratories, Inc., LaPorte, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433140 ; 128 12 ;
Abstract
A dental device including a body of plastic material having a plurality of bite block portions and a tongue shield portion for holding a patient's mouth open while restricting movement of the tongue toward the teeth. The bite block portions are adapted to be engaged by the opposing occlusal surfaces of the arches and the tongue shield portion extends between the bite block portions for particularly blocking the tongue from moving toward the lingual surfaces of the teeth.