CGM (continuous glucose monitor) in your tooth?  NOT YET!

Imagine having a continuous blood glucose monitor in your tooth that transmits your glucose readings to your computer or PDM, powered by your chewing and talking.  Right now, they have developed a prototype radio device designed to fit inside a human tooth and provide covert mobile phone communications.  Why not a blood glucose monitor? 

The "tooth-phone" would only be audible to its wearer.

 

Cell Phones Can Now Fit in Your Tooth.

A prototype radio device designed to fit inside a human tooth and provide covert mobile phone communications has been created by two UK students.

The device currently consists of a digital radio receiver that converts radio signals into sound and a tiny vibrating component, which conveys sound to the wearer's inner ear through bone vibrations.

Inventors James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau of the Royal College of Art in London say the tiny receiver could be configured to receive sound from an external device, such as a mobile phone, a radio or a computer.

They also say it would be relatively simple to fit the gadget with a microphone, to allow it to return a radio signal to another device.

Sound conveyed from the tooth-phone would only be audible to the wearer, so Auger and Loizeau believe it could have a wide range of applications.

"At the moment were looking at commercial uses," Loizeau told New Scientist. "From people who want to listen to stock information to traffic data and stock information."

The device is currently wired to a battery. But power could be generated by an electro-magnetic micro-generator embedded in the tooth, Loiseau suggests. "It would be powered as people eat, speak or wiggle their heads," he says 

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