NU12 #12 Molina, Jose Paolo

Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

Redesigning Braces

Braces are the things a dentist put in your mouth to correct many deformities and misalignments in your teeth.  They are painful at times and can become a hassle because food usually gets stuck between them.

I myself wear braces and I can tell you that my gums have bleed a lot since then because of the loos wirings and the shape of the brace itself which had some hooks..

My proposal is to redesign these accursed things and make it more round. Kind of like in the 80’s box type cars were the “in thing” and then in the 90s the more aerodynamic  cars came and the box-types were suddenly old.

In my proposed braces, they should be curved  so that when it hits the skin the skin would be safe.

A more ergonomic braces would be enclosed and food stuck between teeth would be minimized because there shouldn’t be hooks protruding or any loose wires that sink into the gums.

This is safer because a common thing that happens in people with braces is they have infection in wounds in the gums. This is dangerous to our health because we ingest the secretions of the infected wound and this circulates inside our body.

This would entail costs to cure like oral antiseptics and antibiotics.

Ergonomic braces would be a prevention rather than a cure for such problems which to me is better and is about time. 4