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Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients
We introduce a new tongue prosthetic assist device (TPAD), which shows the first prosthetic application for potential treatment of swallowing difficulty in dysphagia patients. The native tongue has a number of complex movements that are not feasible to mimic using a single mechanical prosthetic devi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31671519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12213555 |
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author | Shayan, Mahdis Gildener-Leapman, Neil Elsisy, Moataz Hastings, Jack T. Kwon, Shinjae Yeo, Woon-Hong Kim, Jee-Hong Shridhar, Puneeth Salazar, Gabrielle Chun, Youngjae |
author_facet | Shayan, Mahdis Gildener-Leapman, Neil Elsisy, Moataz Hastings, Jack T. Kwon, Shinjae Yeo, Woon-Hong Kim, Jee-Hong Shridhar, Puneeth Salazar, Gabrielle Chun, Youngjae |
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description | We introduce a new tongue prosthetic assist device (TPAD), which shows the first prosthetic application for potential treatment of swallowing difficulty in dysphagia patients. The native tongue has a number of complex movements that are not feasible to mimic using a single mechanical prosthetic device. In order to overcome this challenge, our device has three key features, including (1) a superelastic nitinol structure that transfers the force produced by the jaws during chewing towards the palate, (2) angled composite tubes for guiding the nitinol strips smoothly during the motion, and (3) highly stretchable thin polymeric membrane as a covering sheet in order to secure the food and fluids on top of the TPAD for easy swallowing. A set of mechanical experiments has optimized the size and angle of the guiding tubes for the TPAD. The low-profile TPAD was successfully placed in a cadaver model and its mobility effectively provided a simplistic mimic of the native tongue elevation function by applying vertical chewing motions. This is the first demonstration of a new oral device powered by the jaw motions in order to create a bulge in the middle of the mouth mimicking native tongue behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-68623072019-12-05 Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients Shayan, Mahdis Gildener-Leapman, Neil Elsisy, Moataz Hastings, Jack T. Kwon, Shinjae Yeo, Woon-Hong Kim, Jee-Hong Shridhar, Puneeth Salazar, Gabrielle Chun, Youngjae Materials (Basel) Article We introduce a new tongue prosthetic assist device (TPAD), which shows the first prosthetic application for potential treatment of swallowing difficulty in dysphagia patients. The native tongue has a number of complex movements that are not feasible to mimic using a single mechanical prosthetic device. In order to overcome this challenge, our device has three key features, including (1) a superelastic nitinol structure that transfers the force produced by the jaws during chewing towards the palate, (2) angled composite tubes for guiding the nitinol strips smoothly during the motion, and (3) highly stretchable thin polymeric membrane as a covering sheet in order to secure the food and fluids on top of the TPAD for easy swallowing. A set of mechanical experiments has optimized the size and angle of the guiding tubes for the TPAD. The low-profile TPAD was successfully placed in a cadaver model and its mobility effectively provided a simplistic mimic of the native tongue elevation function by applying vertical chewing motions. This is the first demonstration of a new oral device powered by the jaw motions in order to create a bulge in the middle of the mouth mimicking native tongue behavior. MDPI 2019-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6862307/ /pubmed/31671519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12213555 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shayan, Mahdis Gildener-Leapman, Neil Elsisy, Moataz Hastings, Jack T. Kwon, Shinjae Yeo, Woon-Hong Kim, Jee-Hong Shridhar, Puneeth Salazar, Gabrielle Chun, Youngjae Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title | Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title_full | Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title_fullStr | Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title_short | Use of Superelastic Nitinol and Highly-Stretchable Latex to Develop a Tongue Prosthetic Assist Device and Facilitate Swallowing for Dysphagia Patients |
title_sort | use of superelastic nitinol and highly-stretchable latex to develop a tongue prosthetic assist device and facilitate swallowing for dysphagia patients |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6862307/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31671519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma12213555 |
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