Patent ID: 9549841
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61M

Claim:
1. A tongue position stimulator (TST) method for delivering a stimulant to stimulate anterior repositioning of a tongue in a mouth of a subject in order to treat sleep disorder breathing, comprising: securing a dental retainer tray in a secured configuration onto a set of teeth comprising front incisors within the mouth and with a delivery port located at or adjacent to the front incisors; coupling a source of the stimulant in a non-gas liquid preparation at an external location outside of the mouth to the delivery port via a delivery assembly; delivering only the non-gas liquid preparation of stimulant from the source at the external location and in a locally isolated manner in its non-gas liquid form to only an anterior location within an anterior oral cavity at or adjacent to the front incisors within the mouth via the delivery assembly and through the delivery port with the dental retainer tray in the secured configuration; and stimulating the anterior repositioning of the tongue freely toward the delivery port and to the anterior location via the locally isolated delivery of stimulant so as to thereby treat the sleep disorder breathing.