Design Innovation Centre (DIC), UIET, Panjab University (PU), has developed a human bite force measuring device which will measure the human-biting force capacity, said Prashant Jindal, principal investigator of the project on Thursday.
A team of a multidisciplinary students from UIET- Vijay Kumar, Ashish Khar, Prashant Gupta and Navudhay Pratap Singh, mentored by Dr Prashant Jindal, Dr Mamta Juneja and Dr Rakesh Tuli in collaboration with Dr Anand Gupta, Government Medical College & Hospital , Sector 32, have designed and developed human bite force measuring device over the past three years.
“This human bite force measuring device is used to assess biting force related disorders and recovery rates of post operated patients who have undergone maxillofacial surgeries,” said Jindal.
“The purpose of the device is that it gives us the estimate of how much is the biting force capacity of a patient and based on the number the surgeon can evaluate whether the bite force is normal or less and if it is less then what could be the issue with the jaw and tooth and the muscles in the face,” he said. “So far we have done 100 successful trials over normal patients who do not have any problem in their jaws.
Now, we will be conducting a test for those patients who have specific issues in their tooth, jaw and face. Based on that, we will be able to assess whether this device is useful for people who were suffering from any disease and after that we will be going for its commercialisation,” he said.
