Dale Miller, JD Inventor.
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Inventor's Personal Story
I did not sleep well for many years. I woke up congested
and tired every morning during the decade of my 40's. My wife and children told me I snored loudly every time I fell
asleep. Relatives and friends joked about my snoring the same as we had joked about my Father's snoring before he died in his sleep in November 1983. Thereafter, my mother lived 21 years as a lonely widow. I am sure my Father would have lived much longer with today's advances in sleep medicine.
In the late 1980's I became involved, as a personal injury trial attorney, in two auto accident cases where drivers fell asleep driving during the daytime! People died and others were seriously injured. Those sad cases convinced
me to schedule a sleep study at St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield WI. My RN wife had been telling me for years that I stop breathing during sleep. In the meeting with my doctor after my first hospital sleep study, I learned that I am a
nocturnal mouth breather suffering with a serious condition called sleep apnea. My respiratory disturbance index (RDI) was 22. I would stop breathing for 10 seconds or longer, 22 times per hour during sleep.
I used my Cpap machine for a year and a half. During one of my doctor visits, while I was still using Cpap, I asked the doctor if mouth breathing could be a primary cause of my snoring and sleep apnea. My doctor said: "I wish we had a tolerable cure for mouth
breathing. That might help you." After that doctor visit, my RN wife and I worked on coming up with a simple way to gently keep my mouth closed. We
laughed about how difficult it may be to find a tolerable device to keep an attorney's
mouth closed.
On December 21, 1995 I returned to St. Joseph's Hospital for a second full night sleep study using no device the first half of the night and using our original Chin-Up Strip the second half of the night. During the visit with my doctor after my second sleep study, he indicated I snored and experienced numerous sleep apnea events the first half of the night. The second half of the night, using the Chin-Up Strip, my snoring was reduced significantly and my RDI dropped to 5. That was in the normal RDI range for sleep apnea, according to my doctor.
Then he said: "Attorney Miller you need to get a patent on your Chin-Up Strip device as soon as possible! There are millions of people who would benefit from using your simple device to comfortably control mouth breathing." We applied for Chin-Up Strip patents early in 1996. We tried many different shapes and sizes as indicated in the U.S. Patents issued in 1997. We
started with a soft non woven polyester material from 3M Medical Specialties.
In 1997 and 1998, patient sleep studies were conducted to "Evaluate the Chin-Up Strip" in a hospital sleep center in Lexington, KY under the direction of a University of KY sleep medicine doctor named Barbara Phillips, MD.
1997- 98 Sleep Study Data Published in CHEST
Cardio-Pulmonary & Critical Care Journal 10/98 p.383S
University of KY Medical College Columbia Hospital
Lexington, KY - Barbara Phillips, MD, FCCP, MS.
Conclusions - Clinical Implications
"We conclude that the Chin-Up Strip combined with Breathe Right
nasal strip is an effective alternative treatment for the primary
snorer, as well as for mild OSA patients who are not surgical
candidates or cannot tolerate CPAP."
Now we offer 3 different shaped strips to satisfy our customers around the world. We help the world sleep with a simple non invasive FDA cleared device for snoring and oral venting. FDA reviewed and cleared the device in 2004.
I have used Chin-Up Strips every night since December 1995. I have more energy at 64 than
I had at 50. I was fortunate to learn that simply getting older was not the reason I had low
energy and daytime sleepiness during my 40's. The primary cause of my condition was mouth
breathing during sleep.
"Necessity is the mother of invention"
Inventor: Dale D. Miller, JD
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