Student Work

A common option for advanced oral cancer patients is a glossectomy, in which the patient’s tongue is partially or totally surgically removed. The goal of this project is to create a prosthetic tongue mounted on a retainer to aid in the swallowing process. This uses a series of air channels to create a wavelike motion against the roof of the mouth, which are actuated by air pumps for which we designed a control module to test this mechanism. For validation this project also gathered pressure and displacement data and validated these numbers using finite element analysis in Abaqus.

Creator

• Bridges, Benjamin Daniel
• Sellen, Claire A.
• O'Neil, Sarah E.
• Hiscox, Colin A.
• Dorer, Renee K.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-051820-191756

Advisor

• Albrecht, Dirk
• Radhakrishnan, Pradeep

Year

• 2020

Date created

• 2020-05-18

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Interdisciplinary
• Biomedical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

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• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

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