Patent ID: 6773451
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: A61J

Abstract:
A teat for a baby or a child, the teat comprising a plate on which the dental arches rest and defining a bite plane, said plate being terminated towards the front by a vestibular screen against which at least one of the dental arches comes into abutment in a desired position, and said plate being shaped to have limbs extending along at least a portion of the dental arches, said plate being secured to means projecting forwards out from the mouth, the teat further having a nipple projecting from the rear of the plate and connected thereto by elastic means, enabling the nipple to move away from the vestibular screen while then applying a return force to the nipple urging it towards the vestibular screen, said nipple extending rearwards beyond the ends of the limbs of said plate, said nipple being in register with the back portion of the tongue when the teat is in operation in the mouth of the baby or child so as to co-operate with the tongue and the palate and stimulate movement analogous to that of suckling, so that the teat performs simultaneously the functions of providing proper relative positioning of the dental arches in the mouth of the baby or child, by means of the configuration of the plate and of the vestibular screen, and of stimulating the tongue and a dynamic functioning of the stomatognathic system.