公开(公告)号：US20230100495A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US18074911

申请日：2022-12-05

申请人： University of South Florida

发明人： Summer Joy Decker ,  Jonathan Michael Ford ,  Jessica Allen Ching

IPC分类号： A61F5/058 ,  A61C5/00 ,  G05B19/4099 ,  G06T17/20 ,  A61B17/66 ,  B33Y50/00 ,  A61C7/08 ,  A61C9/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  A61C7/00 ,  A61B34/10 ,  B29C64/386 ,  G06T19/00 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  A61B17/00 ,  A61B17/56

摘要： An off-the-shelf oral splint that is operatively secured to the maxilla and mandible to assist in reduction and provide maintenance of reduction of maxillary and mandibular fractures in the edentulous or partially edentulous patient. The oral splint is fabricated into a plurality of standardized sizes. These sizes are determined by imaging a population of jaws, measuring dimensions thereof, manipulating (e.g., calculating the mean) these dimensions, and generating a size that is representative of a subset of that population. This can be done for all sizes that would represent individuals in that population. The splint itself is fabricated virtually by creating “U-shapes”, splitting them horizontally into halves, creating an evacuation channel, and generating a coupling mechanism to hold the halves together. The splint can then be printed or otherwise manufactured.