Patent ID: 9597221
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: A61C,A61F,A63B,A63C

Claim:
1. A method of enabling a silicone dental arch appliance which fits over one or more teeth of a person's dental arch to be fabricated by an end user of a commercial product comprising a mixture of uncured silicone and a hibernating tin-base catalyst which will awaken in response to an external influence effective to cause the uncured silicone to begin curing by catalytic action, the method comprising: manufacturing a mixture of uncured silicone and a hibernating tin-based catalyst; after the mixture has been manufactured, enclosing the mixture within a hermetically sealed enclosure to create a commercial product; then shipping the commercial product from the manufacturer to an end user; then, at the end user, opening the enclosure, removing the mixture, and working the mixture onto a dental arch model of a person's dental arch to capture in the worked mixture, an impression of one or more teeth of the dental arch model; removing unwanted mixture from the worked mixture while leaving worked mixture containing the impression on the dental arch model; and then exposing the dental arch model with the worked mixture on it to an atmosphere whose relatively humidity is high enough to awaken the catalyst and cause the uncured silicone to begin to cure by catalytic action.