IP Library Granted Patent US 8,671,947
Granted Patent B2
US 8,671,947 · App. 12/428,832 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Dental bite construction for performance enhancing mouth guards

Inventor: Kirk C. Quigless (St. Louis, MO)
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,671,947
App. No.
12/428,832
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An improved performance enhancing mouth guards having transverse pins embedded in the right and left posterior occlusal base portion of the mouth guard, is disclosed.

Claims (4)

1. A dental bite construction for mouth guards, enhancing physical performance by a user, the mouth guard being a self-fitting boil and bite dental appliance, having a U-shaped base with labial and lingual walls forming a channel, said appliance sized and configured to be insertable into and to fit within the mouth of said user between the upper and lower teeth of the user, and for improved lower jaw positioning; said dental appliance including right and left bite portions positionable respectively between the right and left upper and lower posterior teeth of the user, to space and maintain said upper and lower posterior teeth apart from one another when said user bites down on said bite portions;

said right and left bite portions each comprising a single integral, non-softenable pin strengthening and remaining in the mouth guard during above said performance by said user, buried within the U-shaped base, and transverse to the direction of the appliance channel, sized and dimensioned to secure safe spacing between said user's upper and lower teeth and to provide a performance enhancing slanted positioning of the lower jaw while said user is biting down on said bite portions during performance; said bite portions abutting the upper and lower posterior teeth of the user and being resistant to normal bite pressure as the user bites down on strengthened bite portions during said performance so as to effect a levering of the back portion of the lower jaw and to position and maintain the jaw in performance enhancing position while bite pressure is being applied to said bite portions by the user and whereby the positioning and maintenance of the lower jaw through the use of said dental appliance, as the user engages in physical actions, enhances said user's performance during same.

2. The bite construction of claim 1 in a boil and bite mouth guard for enveloping primarily the upper teeth.

3. The bite construction of claim 1 in a boil and bite mouth guard for enveloping primarily the lower teeth.

Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61094221 · Sep 4, 2008
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