Anteriorly bridged dental trays

Claim 1

In dental apparatus that comprises a pair of U-shaped dentition troughs, formed of soft, form-retaining plastic material, formed by a bridging member connected at each end between anterior upper edges of said troughs, the improvement, comprising: said bridging member having a pair of fold-defining transverse creases, each crease being spaced from its joinder with an upper anterior edge of one of said troughs: said transverse creases being spaced apart to define between them, a connector leg of a length such that when the troughs, through folding of said creases, are brought into bottom-to-bottom juxtaposed relation, the upper anterior ends of said troughs are maintained spaced apart a distance greater than the combined thickness of the posterior extremities of said troughs; and said connector leg being provided with means stiffening the same against significant bowing while subject to the pressures normally occurring when said troughs are brought into the described bottom-to-bottom juxtaposed relation as the apparatus is disposed for insertion into a person's mouth whereby the connector leg tends to bias the dentition troughs into intimate relation to the user's teeth while the apparatus is in place in the user's mouth.