WashU Engineering Electronic Tooth Sensor

An engineering group at The Washington University of St. Louis has developed a prototype of a biosensor that tracts oral peptides related to dental diseases. According to this piece: “The electronic “tooth” is a tiny sensor and an electronic chip that is only a few millimeters-cube in volume. From here, it would be inserted in the patient’s gum line or part of a dental application. The chip contains bio-recognition elements that measure different disease peptides, and the researchers will start by monitoring these peptides to find peptides related to periodontitis, a dental disease. A wireless ultrasound device will be used to read the peptide levels, and display the results on a medical data-cloud.”     MORE WITH VIDEO

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