Patent ID: 7293990

Claim:
A one-piece, injection-molded intraoral device, comprising: a one-piece, flexible, injection molded body made of a single homogeneous material, the body including a spine; an upper front wall; an upper rear wall separated from the upper front wall by a gap, a lower front wall; a lower rear wall separated from the lower front wall by a gap; the upper walls joined along the spine to form an upper evacuation channel; the lower walls joined along the spine to form a lower evacuation channel; one or more evacuation holes in at least one of the upper walls and in communication with the upper evacuation channel; one or more evacuation holes in at least one of the lower walls and in communication with the lower evacuation channel, and a connection section in direct communication with both the upper evacuation channel and the lower evacuation channel and configured to extend outside of the patient's mouth to connect with a vacuum source for evacuating fluid from the patient's mouth through the evacuation holes and the evacuation channels.