Patent ID: 7946292

Claim:
A device for retaining a tongue in a pre-determined position, the device comprising: a single flange having a first and second surface, said single flange being substantially flexible and sized and shaped to be comfortably received between a person's lips and frontal surface of a person's teeth or alveolar ridges if teeth are absent, an aperture, having a distal end and a proximal end, disposed within said single flange wherein said aperture further includes walls extending from said first surface of said single flange and from said proximal end of said aperture, said walls forming an enclosed bulb protruding from said first surface of said single flange, wherein said bulb forms a chamber in communication with said aperture and being adapted to receive a tongue and wherein said distal end of said aperture is contiguous with said second surface of said single flange; whereby when the single flange is received between the person's lips and frontal surface of the person's teeth or alveolar ridges if teeth are absent the device does not extend substantially past the user's teeth and into the user's oral cavity.