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New Mouth Spacer Design for Dental Application

Mouth spacer is designed to keep the mouth open wide enough for the dentist during dental procedures. Designing and developing a mouth spacer that able to open mouth wide enough and limit the tongue movement is the main objectives for this paper. The new mouth spacer design is expected to reduce gums and jaws pain. This paper incorporates problem identification, idea generation and conceptualization stage in order to generate two design concepts for new mouth spacer designed. The mouth spacer conceptual design with dual function that complied with these project objectives was selected. This design was modeled by using of CATIA software and the suggested material is polyvinylacetate polyethylene (EVA) copolymer and application of silicone sponge gel on the side for patient comfort and satisfaction. The mock up design was prepared using RP machine to visualize the conceptual design. Above all, this paper gives detailed description function of the mouth spacer that may improve the dental surgery application towards a better procedure.