Patent ID: 7841346

Claim:
A dental orthotic device for retaining a patient's mandible in a protrusive position, the dental orthotic device comprising: a convex band-shaped intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface for resisting mandibular retraction by abutting the patient's gingiva covering the mandible, wherein the intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface does not encompass the teeth; an extramaxillary anterior maxillary abutment surface against which the intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface is braced by means of the extramaxillary anterior maxillary abutment surface abutting the patient's tissue covering the subnasal maxillary bone; an intraoral posterior maxillary abutment surface to resist rotation of the dental orthotic produced by interaction on the patient of the intraoral anterior mandibular abutment surface and the extramaxillary anterior maxillary abutment surface.