Patent ID: 8656921

Claim:
An adjustable soft palate support, being a flat implant made of materials capable of being implanted into a human body for a long term, comprising: a flat implant support capable of being inserted into a soft palate; and a hard palate connecting end, configured to connect the flat implant support to a hard palate, wherein the hard palate connecting end comprises: a connecting structure, configured to fix the hard palate connecting end to the hard palate; and an adjustment mechanism on the hard palate connecting end, configured to control a movement or a curvature of the flat implant support, wherein the adjustment mechanism comprises: a switch structure having an on state and an off state, wherein when the adjustment mechanism is in the on state, the flat implant support implanted into the soft palate is capable of moving with a natural swinging of the soft palate; when the adjustment mechanism is in the off state, the flat implant support implanted into the soft palate is capable of lifting the soft palate towards a tongue root and changing a central axis of the soft palate during the natural swinging, so as to enlarge an airway of a pharynx during breathing, and the switch structure further comprises one selected from the group consisting of a spring pushrod-type switch structure and a double-button type switch structure.