Stanley Knebelman

US Patent:

6634353, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

Mar 17, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/528013

Inventors:

Stanley Knebelman - Wynnewood PA 19096
Alan G. Deeley - Youngstown OH 44503

International Classification:

A61C 1904

US Classification:

12820024, 433 72

Abstract:

A method of treating a patient having a malocclusion between the upper and lower mandibles, and obtaining optimum relative positioning of the mandibles. The treatment is useful in correcting respiratory conditions such as sleep apnea, and in prosthodontics and implantology. The method comprises measuring the malocclusion and determining the variation of the malocclusion from an optimal line occlusal contact, then mounting a dental appliance on one or both of the upper and lower mandibles and providing points of engagement on the exposed surface of the appliance to engage the other mandible as it is moved towards the closed position against the one mandible, to thereby reposition the mandibles in a direction toward line occlusion. After one or more periods of use of the appliance, the appliance is modified until the mandibles achieve line occlusion. To reinforce the treatment, at times of repose, the patients mandibles may be biased toward closure so as to effect relative displacement of the mandibles from the maloccluded positioning toward the nine positioning.

US Patent:

47188502, Jan 12, 1988

Filed:

Aug 22, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/899005

Inventors:

Stanley Knebelman - Overbrook Hills PA

International Classification:

A61C 1904

US Classification:

433 72

Abstract:

Vertical dimension of occlusion, i. e. the vertical dimension of the face with the posterior teeth fitting tightly together, is readily determined by a method comprising first measuring the distance between the external auditory meatus and the lateral corner of the occular orbit, making an adjustment in the first measurement to arrive at the factored distance and then positioning the mandible so that the distance between the nasal spine and the anterior part of the undersurface of the mandible corresponds to the factored distance. Gauging devices are disclosed for performing the method.

US Patent:

D3141586, Jan 29, 1991

Filed:

Aug 22, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/234847

Inventors:

Stanley Knebelman - Philadelphia PA

Assignee:

Craniometrics, Inc. - Philadelphia PA

US Classification:

D10 73