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 meas
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 patient's mandibles may be biased toward closure so as to effect relative displacement of the mandibles from the maloccluded positioning toward the nine positioning.
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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 meas
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 patient's mandibles may be biased toward closure so as to effect relative displacement of the mandibles from the maloccluded positioning toward the nine positioning. said seeding assemblies being slidably coupled to said shaft of said regulating assembly such that each of said seeding assemblies is alignable with one of said indentations, each of said indentations aligned with one of said seeding assemblies being adapted for collecting one of the seeds from said hopper of the associated one of said seeding assemblies and transferring the seed from said hopper to said dispensing portion when said shaft of said regulating assembly is rotated with respect to the seeding assemblies. 3. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 2, further comprising: said regulating assembly having a plurality of wheels, each of said wheels being couplable to opposing ends of said shaft of said regulating assembly, said wheels being adapted for extending beyond opposing sides of the flat such that said wheels permit said seeding assemblies to be advanced across the flat and rotate said shaft of said regulating member for regulating a seed from each of said seeding assemblies being deposited into an associated one of the depressions of the flat. 4. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 3, further comprising: a tray member being adapted for receiving the flat, said tray member having a pair of side portions, each of said side portions being positioned adjacent opposing side edges of a support portion of said tray member such that said flat is positioned between said side portions when said support portion of said tray member is supporting the flat, each of said wheels engaging one of said side portions of said tray member such that each of said wheels rolls along the associated one of said side portions adapted for guiding said seeding assemblies over the flat. 5. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 4, further comprising: said tray member having a plurality inserts, each of said side portions of said tray member having a channel such that said channel of each of said side portions receives one of said inserts, each of said inserts having a plurality of holes, said holes being positioned in a spaced relationship along a length of the associated one of said inserts, each of said holes receiving one of a plurality of teeth of the associated one of said wheels for maintaining alignment of each of said wheels with said side portions of said tray member. 6. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 3, further comprising: said plurality of wheels being arranged in a plurality of wheel sets, said wheels of each of said wheel sets having a diameter unique from a diameter of said wheels of each other of said wheel sets such that said wheels of each of said wheel sets rotates said shaft at a different rate than each other of said wheel sets for dispensing seeds at different intervals when said wheels of the associated wheel set are coupled to said shaft. 7. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 2, further comprising: said plurality of indentations being arranged in a plurality of indentation sets, each of said indentations of each of said indentation sets having a unique diameter from the other of said indentations of the associated one of said indentation sets such that each of said indentations of the associated one of said indentation sets is adapted for collecting seeds of a size less than the diameter of the associated one of said indentations of said indentation sets for inhibiting more than one seed being collected. 8. The seed planting system as set forth in claim 2, further comprising: said dispensing portion of each of said seeding assemblies having a dispensing tube, said dispensing tube having a lumen in communication with the associated one of said indentations of said shaft when the associated one of said indentations is rotated past said hopper of the associated one of said seeding assemblies, said dispensing tube being adapted for dispensing a seed collected by the associated one of said indentations into one of the depressions of the flat
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