METHOD OF REDUCING WEIGHT BY MEANS OF INTRA-ORAL DEVICES Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61M21/00 A61C7/36 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine and can be used in case if it is necessary to reduce excessive weight in patients. For this purpose, passive fixation of upper and lower jaws to each other, completely excluding possibility of chewing food, is performed by means of intraoral devices. Passive fixation of jaws is provided due to levelling and connection of intra-oral devices with respect to each other without taking into account direction of growth and shape of teeth. For the period from 1 to 3 weeks feeding is performed only with liquid food. After 1-3 weeks fixation of jaws is removed and feeding with individually selected diet in combination with individually selected physical exercise is realised. Procedure of fixation is repeated until result is obtained. Method ensures effective and comfortable reduction f body weight in patients with obesity due to reduction of nutrition caloric intake by application of jaws fixation, completely preventing possibility of chewing solid food, without producing any effect on teeth, eliminating necessity of "correct" orthodontic fixation of applied devices, as well as due to application of additional complex of procedures.

EFFECT: increase of method efficiency.

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