Patent ID: 7849661

Claim:
A method of making a teeth treatment device, comprising the steps of: passing a substrate through a container having melted wax therein to form a wax saturated substrate; applying a quantity of bleaching solution to one side of said wax saturated substrate; joining a thin plastic sheet to said one side of said wax saturated substrate to form a plastic coated wax saturated substrate having a quantity of bleach; passing said plastic coated wax substrate having a quantity of bleach to a cutting die, whereby said cutting die cuts said plastic coated wax saturated substrate having a quantity of bleach into individual strips having a predetermined configurations comprising a lower jaw pattern and an upper jaw pattern, each of said lower and upper jaw patterns having a front edge sized to cover the front of a user's teeth, a back edge and a longitudinal fold line dividing each of said lower and upper jaw patterns into a front portion that extends from said fold line to said front edge and a back portion that extends from said fold line to said back edge, said back portion of each of said lower and upper jaw patterns comprising at least two areas cut from said back portions, said areas extending generally from said back edge to said fold line to allow said lower and upper jaw patterns to be folded to form a tray conforming to a patient's lower or upper teeth; and packaging said individual strips.