CN112545682B

CN112545682B - Intelligent functional corrector

Info

Publication number: CN112545682B
Application number: CN202011421463.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 严斌; 史学明; 吴斌; 黄辉祥; 李昱; 普盼君
Original assignee: Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
Current assignee: Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
Priority date: 2020-12-07
Filing date: 2020-12-07
Publication date: 2021-10-01
Anticipated expiration: 2040-12-07
Also published as: JP2023536368A; NL2029162A; NL2029162B1; WO2022121240A1; CN112545682A

Abstract

The invention provides an intelligent functional appliance, which comprises an appliance body, a monitoring component and a power module, wherein the appliance body comprises a correcting part, the correcting part is arranged on a dental row, the monitoring component is arranged on the appliance body and comprises a detecting part, a microprocessor, a clock chip and a memory, the detecting part is used for detecting the environmental information in the oral cavity, the microprocessor is respectively connected with the detecting part, the clock chip and the memory, and the monitoring component is powered by the power module; this kind of intelligent functional appliance through setting up the monitoring subassembly, wears and monitors whether or not and the control wearing time to the intraoral appliance of patient, and then guarantees that the patient effectively wears, improves correction efficiency.

Description

Intelligent functional corrector

Technical Field

The invention relates to an intelligent functional appliance.

Background

In the early deciduous, dental replacement and permanent teeth stages, the abnormal function of the oral and maxillofacial muscles can cause many oral cavity malocclusion deformities, such as functional mandibular recession and functional mandibular protrusion, which are extremely harmful. The functional malaise of teenagers mainly causes functional factors, and particularly, the functional position of the lower jaw and the lower dental arch is moved in the early stage of deciduous teeth, dental replacement and permanent teeth, namely, the position abnormality of oral cavity bad habits, muscle forms, muscles and the like, while the absolute length of the bone is not changed. The functional malocclusion appliance is corrected, and in recent years, a preformed silica gel muscle functional appliance, namely an MRC functional appliance, is used.

The existing functional appliance has the following problems:

firstly, the MRC functional appliance needs to be worn by the patient for a long time strictly according to the time required by the doctor, the fitting degree requirement on the patient is high, the patient in the deciduous tooth period, the tooth replacement period and the early permanent tooth period is generally poor in autonomy due to the fact that the patient is small in age, the patient often cannot be worn on time, the wearing time is seriously insufficient, and the parents have no good way to record and supervise the wearing time of the small patient, so that the correcting effect and the correcting period are seriously influenced.

Secondly, the MRC functional appliance is preformed, the length of the MRC functional appliance cannot be adjusted and modified, but the length of the dental arch of a juvenile patient continuously increases along with growth and development, which causes the incomplete matching of the appliance and the dental arch in length and size when being worn by a child, and causes adverse effects of poor comfort in the correction process, unwilling wearing by the patient and poor correction effect.

For the first problem, no good solution exists at present; the related research is carried out on the prior patents aiming at the second problem, but the defects still exist, and the continuous improvement and perfection are needed: for example, chinese patent application CN201710278908.2 discloses a medical multifunctional corrector, which can prolong or shorten the length of the corrector within a certain range through the interaction of a detachable block and a rubber adjusting bolt to meet the purpose of personalized precise treatment. However, the clinical operation process is relatively complex, and the risk of mistaken swallowing caused by the falling of the rubber adjusting screw in the oral cavity exists.

The above-mentioned problems should be considered and solved in the design and production process of the intelligent functional orthotic.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an intelligent functional appliance, which solves the problem of how to realize a novel functional appliance for monitoring whether the appliance is worn in a patient mouth and monitoring the wearing time, thereby improving the correction efficiency.

The technical solution of the invention is as follows:

the utility model provides an intelligent functional appliance, includes and corrects the body, corrects the body and includes correction portion, and correction portion locates on the tooth row, still includes the monitoring subassembly, and on the body was corrected to the monitoring subassembly was located, the monitoring subassembly was including the detection piece, microprocessor, clock chip and the memory that are used for detecting oral cavity internal environment information, and microprocessor connects detection piece, clock chip and memory respectively, and the monitoring subassembly is supplied power by power module.

Furthermore, the detection component adopts a sensor group, the sensor group comprises an oral cavity light intensity physical sensor and a temperature sensor, and the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor and the temperature sensor are respectively connected with the microprocessor.

Further, the both ends lateral part of correcting the body is equipped with monitoring subassembly respectively.

Furthermore, the correcting part is U-shaped, and the upper side and the lower side of the correcting part are respectively provided with an upper groove for accommodating the maxillary dentition and a lower groove for accommodating the mandibular dentition.

Further, correct the body and still include the extension subassembly, the extension subassembly adopts detachable extension subassembly.

Furthermore, the extension subassembly includes the extension body, goes up and holds the groove, hold groove and joint tenon down, and the upper and lower both sides of extension body are equipped with respectively and hold the groove down, and the tip of correction portion is equipped with the joint mortise, and the extension body is equipped with the joint tenon that is used for with joint mortise adaptation.

Furthermore, the extension body still is equipped with the continuation mortise, and the both sides of extension body are located respectively to continuation mortise and joint tenon, and the joint tenon adaptation of continuation mortise and adjacent extension body.

Furthermore, a tongue screen is arranged on the tongue side of the correcting part, and a tongue mark is arranged on the tongue screen.

Furthermore, the lip side of the correcting part is provided with a lip screen which is provided with a breathing hole, the upper side and the lower side of the lip screen are respectively provided with an upper lip frenulum groove and a lower lip frenulum groove, and the lip side of the lip screen is provided with a plurality of point-shaped protrusions.

Furthermore, the monitoring assembly further comprises a transparent protection shell, the transparent protection shell is provided with an inner chamber, the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor, the microprocessor, the clock chip and the memory are respectively arranged in the inner chamber, and the temperature sensor is arranged outside the transparent protection shell.

The invention has the beneficial effects that: this kind of intelligent functional appliance through setting up the monitoring subassembly, wears and monitors whether or not and the control wearing time to the intraoral appliance of patient, and then guarantees that the patient effectively wears, improves correction efficiency. Further through setting up detachable extension subassembly, make the length of convenient, safe individualized regulation unscrambler of doctor, make its and patient's self dental arch length phase-match to reach the purpose of individualized accurate correction.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent functional orthotic device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an illustrative block diagram of a monitoring component in an embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural view of a correction device and an extension assembly according to an embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating one implementation of a monitoring component in an embodiment;

wherein: 1-correction part, 2-monitoring part, 3-extension part, 4-upper groove, 5-lip screen, 6-tongue screen, 7-tongue mark, 8-breathing hole, 9-upper labial ligament groove, 10-lower labial ligament groove and 11-point-shaped protrusion;

21-oral cavity light intensity physical sensor, 22-temperature sensor, 23-microprocessor, 24-clock chip, 25-memory;

31-extension body, 32-upper containing groove, 33-lower containing groove, 34-clamping tenon, 35-clamping tenon groove and 36-continuous connecting tenon groove.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Examples

The utility model provides an intelligent functional appliance, as fig. 1 and fig. 2, including correcting the body, correct the body and include correction portion 1, correction portion 1 is located on the tooth row, still include monitoring assembly 2, monitoring assembly 2 is located on correcting the body, monitoring assembly 2 is including being used for detecting oral cavity environmental information's detection piece, microprocessor 23, clock chip 24 and memory 25, microprocessor 23 connects detection piece, clock chip 24 and memory 25 respectively, monitoring assembly 2 is supplied power by power module.

This kind of intelligent functional appliance through setting up monitoring subassembly 2, wears whether and monitors wearing time to the intraoral appliance of patient and monitors, and then guarantees that the patient effectively wears, improves correction efficiency.

In this kind of intelligent functional appliance, gather the oral cavity environmental information that the correction body is located through the detection piece, confirm whether the correction body is worn by the patient. The detection part adopts a sensor group, the sensor group comprises an oral cavity light intensity physical sensor 21 and a temperature sensor 22, a chip of the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor 21 is used for collecting the oral cavity light intensity information, and a chip of the temperature sensor 22 is used for collecting the oral cavity temperature information; after receiving the collected information of the sensor group, the microprocessor 23 sends the information to the memory 25 for storage, and the memory 25 is preferably a memory card which can be freely removed or reinstalled. After the wearing is removed, the doctor reads the stored information in the memory 25 through the computer, and important reference data is provided for the doctor. Preferably, the monitoring assemblies 2 are respectively arranged at the two end sides of the correcting body.

This kind of intelligent functional appliance, after the patient wore intelligent functional appliance, sensor group gathered patient intraoral light intensity and temperature information after, sent for microprocessor 23, microprocessor 23 sends the information of gathering for memory 25. When a patient goes to a hospital for a return visit, the doctor can lead data in the memory 25 into the computer, and then the data are processed by computer software, the wearing time of the patient is confirmed, finally, the recorded wearing time information of the patient corrector is displayed for the doctor, and the doctor formulates an individualized scheme according to the specific information, so that intelligent and accurate medical treatment is realized, the correction effect is improved, and the correction time is effectively shortened.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1 and 3, in the intelligent functional appliance, the correcting part 1 is in a U shape, and the upper side and the lower side of the correcting part 1 are respectively provided with an upper groove 4 for accommodating a maxillary dentition and a lower groove for accommodating a mandibular dentition.

In the above embodiment, in the intelligent functional corrector, the extension assembly 3 is arranged at the end of the correcting body, and the extension assembly 3 is a detachable extension assembly 3. Through the application of detachable extension subassembly 3, can realize the length of unscrambler and the complete match of patient's intraoral dental arch length, do benefit to the oral cavity and correct the use.

In the above embodiment, the extension assembly 3 includes an extension body 31, an upper accommodating groove 32, a lower accommodating groove 33, and a locking tenon 34, the upper and lower sides of the extension body 31 are respectively provided with the upper accommodating groove 32 and the lower accommodating groove 33, the end of the correction unit 1 is provided with the locking tenon 35, and the extension body 31 is provided with the locking tenon 34 adapted to the locking tenon 35. Through setting up detachable extension subassembly 3, make the length of convenient, safe individualized regulation unscrambler of doctor, make its arch of teeth length phase-match with patient self to reach the purpose of individualized accurate correction.

The use of the extension module 3 is as follows: when the length of correcting the body is prolonged in needs, hold the groove 32 on with the extension body 31 and correspond with last slot 4, hold the groove 33 down and correspond with slot down, and then with the joint tenon 34 embedding joint tongue-and-groove 35 of extension body 31, realize dismantling the connection. The length extension to correcting the body can be realized to easy and simple to handle, stable in structure to keep corresponding with patient's dentition length, make the length of unscrambler and dental arch length perfect match, realize more effective correction effect.

In the above embodiment, the extension body 31 is further provided with a splicing tongue groove 36, the splicing tongue groove 36 and the locking tongue 34 are respectively provided at two sides of the extension body 31, and the splicing tongue groove 36 is adapted to the locking tongue 34 of the adjacent extension body 31. Through setting up continuous joint tongue-and-groove 36, can set up the extension that a plurality of extension bodies 31 realized correcting the body, extension body 31 is realized dismantling the connection by continuous joint tongue-and-groove 36 and adjacent extension body 31's joint tenon 34 adaptation. The use requirements of different extension lengths are met.

In the intelligent functional appliance, as shown in fig. 3, the appliance body and the extension component 3 are preferably made of silicon rubber. The tongue side of the correction part 1 is provided with a tongue screen 6, and the tongue screen 6 is provided with a tongue mark 7. The lip side of the correcting part 1 is provided with a lip screen 5, the lip screen 5 is provided with a breathing hole 8, the upper side and the lower side of the lip screen 5 are respectively provided with an upper lip frenulum groove 9 and a lower lip frenulum groove 10, and the lip side of the lip screen 5 is provided with a plurality of point-shaped protrusions 11.

This kind of intelligent functional appliance through setting up tongue screen 6, helps lifting on the tongue body, prevents that the tongue position from crossing lowly. The patient is guided to find the correct position of the tongue by setting the tongue mark 7. The lip screen 5 can block the abnormal strength of the orbicularis oris muscle, the masseter muscle and the genius muscle. Through setting up breathing hole 8, can be used to patient's breathing air current and pass through, the risk of stifling appears when preventing to wear the unscrambler night. Through setting up upper lip frenulum groove 9, lower lip frenulum groove 10, hold upper lip frenulum, lower lip frenulum respectively. By arranging the punctiform protrusions 11, the lower anterior tooth region is positioned on the gum, so that the chin muscle is further expanded, and the abnormal strength of the muscle is blocked.

In one embodiment, the monitoring assembly 2 further comprises a transparent protective housing having an inner chamber, the oral light intensity physical sensor 21, the microprocessor 23, the clock chip 24 and the memory 25 are respectively disposed in the inner chamber, and the temperature sensor 22 is disposed outside the transparent protective housing. The transparent protective shell is preferably bonded to the orthotic body and the temperature sensor 22 is preferably bonded to the transparent protective shell. The safety protection and the positioning of the monitoring component 2 are realized by arranging the transparent protection shell.

Referring to fig. 4, a preferred implementation of the intelligent functional orthotic is as follows:

s1, the monitoring component 2 starts to monitor;

s2, acquiring oral cavity environment information at regular time through the detection piece, and sending the oral cavity environment information to the microprocessor 23 by the detection piece;

s3, if the oral cavity environment information is not in the set condition, returning to step S2; when the environmental information in the oral cavity reaches the set conditions, entering the next step;

s4, the microprocessor 23 acquires the starting time information through the clock chip 24, stores the acquired starting time information in a memory, and enters the next step;

s5, the detection piece continues to acquire oral cavity environment information at regular time and sends the oral cavity environment information to the microprocessor 23;

s6, when the oral cavity environment information exceeds the set condition, the microprocessor 23 acquires the end time information through the clock chip 24, stores the acquired end time information in the memory, and proceeds to the next step; if the oral cavity environment information does not exceed the set conditions, the process returns to step S5;

s7, if the monitoring component 2 finishes monitoring, finishing monitoring; if the monitoring component 2 does not end the monitoring, the process returns to step S2.

This kind of intelligent functional appliance, monitoring component 2 realizes the record to wearing time through respectively with initial time information and end time save in the accumulator, and then can calculate the time length of wearing at every turn and the time length of wearing in the settlement time quantum through initial time information and end time save, is convenient for look over wearing time. In one embodiment, whether the functional appliance is worn or not is judged by the oral cavity environment information acquired by the detection piece, and whether the functional appliance is in the oral cavity of the patient or not is judged by the fact that the light intensity information acquired by the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor 21 is not more than a set value and the temperature information acquired by the temperature sensor 22 is within a set range.

This kind of intelligent functional appliance, through set up monitoring subassembly 2 on correcting the body, can realize the acquisition to correcting the oral cavity environmental information that the body was located, and then realize wearing and the wearing time of patient and confirm, thereby accurately learn the wearing time of correcting the body, be convenient for wear to the patient and monitor, and the doctor of being convenient for judges correction effect, effectively avoided only through inquiring that the patient wears the condition existence can not learn the wearing condition or be difficult to accurately learn the problem of wearing time.

In the intelligent functional corrector, the monitoring module 2 may be provided on the correcting unit 1 or the extension module 3. Through setting up extension subassembly 3, be convenient for adapt to the adjustment to the length of correcting the body, match with patient's dental arch, when improving the correction effect, can improve the comfort level of using, labour saving and time saving does benefit to the use.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an intelligent functional appliance, includes corrects the body, corrects the body and includes correction portion, and correction portion locates on the tooth row, its characterized in that: still include the monitoring subassembly, the monitoring subassembly is located on correcting the body, the monitoring subassembly is including the detection piece that is used for detecting oral cavity internal environment information, microprocessor, clock chip and memory, microprocessor connects the detection piece respectively, clock chip and memory, the monitoring subassembly is supplied power by power module, correct the body and still include the extension subassembly, the extension subassembly adopts detachable extension subassembly, the extension subassembly includes the extension body, on hold the groove, hold groove and joint tenon down, the upper and lower both sides of extension body are equipped with respectively and hold groove and hold the groove down, the tip of correction portion is equipped with the joint tongue-and-groove, the extension body is equipped with the joint tenon that is used for with the joint tongue-and-groove adaptation.

2. The intelligent functional orthotic of claim 1, wherein: the detection part adopts a sensor group, the sensor group comprises an oral cavity light intensity physical sensor and a temperature sensor, and the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor and the temperature sensor are respectively connected with a microprocessor.

3. The intelligent functional orthotic of claim 1, wherein: the lateral parts of the two ends of the correcting body are respectively provided with a monitoring component.

4. The intelligent functional orthotic of any one of claims 1-3, wherein: the correcting part is U-shaped, and the upper side and the lower side of the correcting part are respectively provided with an upper groove for accommodating the maxillary dentition and a lower groove for accommodating the mandibular dentition.

5. The intelligent functional orthotic of claim 1, wherein: the extension body still is equipped with the continuation mortise, and the both sides of extension body are located respectively to continuation mortise and joint tenon, and the joint tenon adaptation of continuation mortise and adjacent extension body.

6. The intelligent functional orthotic of any one of claims 1-3, wherein: the tongue side of the correction part is provided with a tongue screen which is provided with a tongue mark.

7. The intelligent functional orthotic of any one of claims 1-3, wherein: the lip side of correcting portion is equipped with the lip screen, and the lip screen is equipped with the breathing hole, and the upper and lower both sides of lip screen are equipped with upper lip frenulum groove and lower lip frenulum groove respectively, and the lip side of lip screen is equipped with a plurality of punctiform and protrudingly.

8. The intelligent functional orthotic of claim 2, wherein: the monitoring assembly further comprises a transparent protection shell, the transparent protection shell is provided with an inner chamber, the oral cavity light intensity physical sensor, the microprocessor, the clock chip and the memory are respectively arranged in the inner chamber, and the temperature sensor is arranged outside the transparent protection shell.