An oral device and kit for use in association therewith

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A - Human Necessities

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A61B 10/00 (2006.01) A61B 5/103 (2006.01) A61C 17/022 (2006.01) A61C 19/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2611563

An oral device for use with a person in which at least one non-toxic gas pulse is delivered to a predetermined location in the mouth via a device conduit. The oral device may be provided as a kit with at least one device for measuring the subject~s responses and representing them as feedback to the subject/clinician. A method of creating a gas bolus pulse train, delivering it to a predetermined mouth area, and monitoring the subject~s responses to it, is also shown. The oral device and method may be used as a diagnostic tool, or a therapeutic tool, in swallowing or speech rehabilitation of children and adults who have swallowing, speech, salivary, and/or oral sensorimotor impairments.

L'invention concerne un dispositif buccal utilisé par une personne à laquelle on administre une impulsion de gaz non toxique au niveau d'un emplacement prédéterminé de la bouche via un conduit de dispositif. Ledit dispositif buccal est fourni sous forme de kit doté d'au moins un dispositif permettant de mesurer les réponses d'un sujet et de les représenter sous forme de rétroaction au sujet/clinicien. L'invention concerne également un procédé permettant de créer une série d'impulsions de bolus gazeux, de l'administrer au niveau d'une zone buccale prédéterminée et de surveiller les réponses du sujet. On peut utiliser ce dispositif buccal et ce procédé comme outil de diagnostic ou outil thérapeutique dans la réadaptation de la déglutition ou de la parole d'enfants ou d'adultes souffrant de troubles de la déglutition, de la parole, de la salivation et/ou sensori-moteurs oraux.

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