US 11,918,428 B2
Oral device, manufacturing apparatus and methods of making the same
Wolfgang Friebauer, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Chunlin He, Irvine, CA (US); Christopher J. Kirkland, Tustin, CA (US); and Robert Ryan Solorzano, Huntington Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US)
Filed by James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/644,402.
Application 17/644,402 is a continuation of application No. 16/353,242, filed on Mar. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,224,500.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/642,778, filed on Mar. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0104924 A1, Apr. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61C 13/01 (2006.01); A61C 5/00 (2017.01); A61C 13/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 13/01 (2013.01) [A61C 5/007 (2013.01); A61C 13/34 (2013.01); A63B 2209/00 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for making a denture device that fits over a wearer's upper or lower jaw, comprising:
a. a denture base comprised of a polymeric material that fits over at least a portion of an edentulous ridge of the wearer's upper or lower jaw comprising
a denture base outer surface, and
a denture base inner surface comprising a fitting surface having a size and shape to engage the wearer's upper or lower jaw;
b. a lid that fits over the denture base inner surface comprising a lid inner surface having a structure that comprises a replica of at least a portion of the wearer's edentulous ridge, wherein the replica aligns within the denture base inner surface when the lid and denture base are assembled; and
c. a cavity between the lid inner surface and the denture base inner surface when the lid and the denture base are assembled;
wherein the lid comprises an introduction port having an opening that extends from a lid outer surface into the cavity.