PROTECTIVE PALATINE PLATE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61C13/107 A61B17/24 

FIELD: medicine; prosthodontics.

SUBSTANCE: can be applied for reconstructive surgery of congenital and acquired defects of alveolar process and body of maxilla, hard and soft palate, as well as various combinations to protect sutures and swabs from external exposure of mouth cavity, to immobilise transplantation and/or implantation material of mucoperiosteal graft in new position, to hold swabs and to form palatine fornix. Protective palatine plate consists of two parts; one of them covers dentition, and another one covers palatine area, made of hard and soft plastic. First part is two-layered, from side towards teeth and alveolar process mucous membrane it is made of soft plastic, towards mouth cavity it is made of hard transparent plastic additionally covering vestibular surface of alveolar process up to contact with interjacent fold cupula. Second part is single-layered, made of hard transparent plastic, spaced of palate in defect projection and surgical area.

EFFECT: improved performance of protective palatine plate; easy application; reliable fixation; complete isolation of operative wound protected from infection by mouth cavity at possibility of swabbing visual control.

9 dwg, 1 tbl, 1 ex