Patents Represented by Attorney Ryan Troutman Sanders LLP Schneider
  • Patent number: 6099304
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and intraoral appliance for correcting malocclusions, incorporating an adjustment assembly and a placement assembly. The adjustment assembly is mounted to a tooth of the maxilla, and the placement assembly is mounted to a corresponding tooth of the mandible. The adjustment assembly cooperates with the placement assembly when the jaws are drawn together, in order to correct the patient's malocclusion. The amount of correction to the malocclusion is finely, continuously adjustable through the adjustment assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventor: David D. Carter