| abstract |
The present invention teaches, enables, illustrates, describes and claims new, useful and non-obvious apparatus and methods of providing dilation to external tissue and user communication via a nasal device (10). The present invention builds upon prior commercial embodiments of tissue dilator devices and addresses several still unmet needs in the art. In particular, without limitation, one embodiment according to the present invention comprises a flexible strip of material (12) adapted to be adhesively secured to nasal surfaces (16) of a user (18), and a signal unit which receives physiological signals of the user (18). |