There are many phobias of the human being: height, spiders, blood, broccoli. But there is one that practically everyone has in common: that of the dentist. Because the idea of being seated on that chair with a drill stuck in your mouth, and a masked human being operating it, terrifies us a lot. We therefore need to be distracted, to think about other things during the long and intense dental sessions. So here comes technology to the rescue with the idea of two Sardinian brothers: augmented reality with hi-tech glasses.
Don't think about it, enjoy your hi-tech glasses
The problems that arise during an intervention can be different. The most common is surely that of boredom which can easily turn into fear, making life hell for the dentist on duty. In fact, some operations require not short times and the impossibility of speaking, both ours and the doctor, cause silence to fall in the room. A silence broken only by the unpleasant noise of the drill, but above all of our thoughts. Some dentists struggle with all of this with music or with images projected on the ceiling. However, more often than not, they fail to reassure us completely. Hence an entirely Italian idea: that of hi-tech eyewear. But how do they work? They are glasses with an augmented reality system, like the famous ones Google Glass or the 3D viewers so popular today.
With these on we will find ourselves immersed in a world away from that chair. We will be able to watch videos, read a book or surf the internet comfortably thanks to a small touch-sensitive remote control. We will also be able to communicate with the dentist thanks to a series of recorded voices. All this will make the intervention lighter, and time will flow faster.
An all-Italian project
But who is behind these hi-tech glasses? The authors of this invention are two Sardinian brothers: Christian and Jonathan Mulas, aged 23 and 25. Grown up ad Arzachena, the city with the smallest museum in the world, they then moved to Spain to study dentistry. Here, between exams and internships, the two wondered if it was possible to make an intervention more enjoyable. After having elaborated the project with relative start-up (the Icnodent), have entered a Spanish competition reserved for young entrepreneurs. The idea caught the interest ofAlfonso X University of Madrid which, in collaboration with the Epson, he made the first glasses. An immediate success that immediately led to marketing in the Iberian Peninsula. And from this September they began to invade the Italian market as well. Who knows if they will be enough to make us overcome the phobia of the dentist.
