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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
May. 13, 2005
Applicants:
Monroe Elkin, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Manese Rabeony, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Monroe Elkin, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Manese Rabeony, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A self-customizable dental appliance adapted to lie within the mouth of a person with a connecting arch or a u-shaped style base with upstanding labial and lingual walls. The appliance is formed of a semi-crystalline polypropylene alpha-olefin copolymer containing stereoregular polymerized units of identical tacticity. In one embodiment, the appliance is formed of elastomeric propylene-ethylene copolymers.