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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2006
Applicant:
Paul J. Buscemi, Long Lake, MN (US);
Inventor:
Paul J. Buscemi, Long Lake, MN (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/56 (2006.01); A61F 2/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A patient's obstructive sleep apnea is treated by placing a fibrosis-inducing agent is placed within the tongue in a region extending substantially from a hyoid bone rearward toward a back surface of the tongue and upwardly along the back wall toward a free end of a soft palate of the patient.