OraPlace™ Orofacial Therapy Tools
The OraPlace™ Tools prevent and treat contractures of the face and mouth for improved facial animation and lip closure after fibrosis from burns, surgery, radiation, scleroderma, and trauma. The OraPlace tools allow for multidimensional 3D stretching of the face, lips and cheeks from inside the mouth to elongate facial muscles and skin. Their design allows for low load prolonged stretching (LLPS) for treatment of the face to maximize facial pliability where it is needed. The OraPlace™ Tools come in multiple shapes with sizes, to target the unique contours of the face and provide escalating tissue expansion.Facial contractures can reduce pliability and motion of the face, limiting facial expression, lip closure, and the oral opening. With reduced orofacial function, patients cannot be orally intubated in emergencies or receive critical dental interventions. Patients also suffer major reductions in quality of life factors, including of eating, drinking, speaking, dental care, and socialization. The OraPlace tools can help prevent or treat loss of these important functions.
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Contracture Treatment:
After facial contractures, the OraPlace tools can be used to stretch and lengthen facial muscles and skin for increased tissue pliability and end-rage movement. The unique shapes of the tools allow for treatment to the specific locations of the contractures around the face. Increasing the size of the tools over time provides LLPS for tissue expansion and increased pliability of the face and mouth.
Contracture Prevention:
The
OraPlace tools can be used for immediate intervention after burns to
prevent contractures, including with sedated and ventilated patients in
acute care. The tools can be used soon after graft surgery to maintain
the graft length. Early intervention can maintain facial pliability and
motion to prevent the loss of function. Preventative treatment to the
modiolus can also reduce the need for later oral commisure releases.
Myofunctional Treatment:
Improve the foundation of oral function for optimal rest posture, breathing, swallowing, and speech patterns. Use the OraPlace tools for tight tissues, poor lip seal, oral rehab and facial muscle imbalance. Check out the new Pill Tool for lip & tongue tie care.
Products:
- Individual OraPlace Tools - Each tool is available independently for specific localized therapy.
- The OraPlace Contracture Prevention Kit (CR18107) - Use this kit to help maintain the full size and motion of the tissues to prevent contractures from shrinking and limiting orofacial movement. Includes one each of the large bar, ball and boomerang tools.
- The OraPlace Contracture Treatment Kit (CR1800) - Starting with the small tools, the patient can slowly increase their size over time to elongate the tissues for increase end-rage motion. The tools can be used like tissue expanders or manual tools. Includes all 10 tools or the bar, ball and boomerang tools in small, medium and large, plus the XL boomerang.
- Size Kits - Available in Small (CR18103), Medium (CR18105) or Large (CR18107), each kit includes all three shapes of the tools in the kit size. E.g. Small Kit includes one small Bar, one small Ball, and one small Boomerang tool.
- Shape Kits - Available in Bar(CR18310), Ball (CR18410) or Boomerang (CR18510), each
kit includes all sizes shapes of the tool in the kit shape. E.g. Bar Kit includes one small Bar, one medium Bar, and one large Bar tool.
- Facility Kits - Larger kits of bar, ball and boomerang tools for providers in a facilities. The kits come in a kit box and can easily replenished with the refill kits as the individual tools are used.
- Facility Kit Refill Packs - Refill kits of a specific tool for the OraPlace Facility kits.
The Tools:
The 4 shapes include:
- The Bar Tool - Targets the area above and below the lips, i.e. under the philtrum and the mentolabial junction.
- The Ball Tool - Targets the deep pockets of the nasal labial folds and smile lines.
- The Boomerang Tool - Targets the cheeks and mid-line areas along the teeth.
- The Pill Tool - Capsule shaped for use under the tongue, frenulum, or lip edges.
Target Areas
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