Project chosen by Royal Society for Exhibition
Dento-Munch project chosen for Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition
[Posted on 18 March 2009]
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The Royal Society has chosen the "Dento-Munch" research project for its 2009 Summer Science Exhibition in London from 30th June to 4th July. Experts from the Mechanical Engineering department (Drs Kazem Alemzadeh, Andrew Harrison and Daniel Raabe; PhD student) and the Department of Oral and Dental Science (the Bristol Dental School and Hospital; Dr Tony Ireland) have copied a human bite to robot jaws to test dental materials and components. The group has developed a lightweight clinical dental brace to record human chewing motions. The dental brace records the mandible movements such as opening, closing, protrusion and laterostruction using a Vicon optical motion tracking system based in BRL.