Arduino based Smart Equipment for Pain Free Jaw Movement

Trismus and Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a frequently observed clinical condition. Rehabilitation with mouth-opening exercises is very much essential for a fast and successful recovery. To deal with these conditions, smart equipment for pain-free jaw movement has been modelled and clinically tested. In the proposed Trismus treatment equipment unit, the autonomous actions are attained by employing Arduino UNO as the core. Initially, the microcontroller will activate the pump to spray the mouth cleaner by prompting the relay interfaced to it. Upon activation, the pump will spray the mouth cleaner into the patient's mouth. After completion of mouth cleaner spraying, the microcontroller will activate the syringe to spray the pain reliever. The sprayed out medicine from the mouth is sucked out using the vacuum pump interfaced to the controller. Only after the completion, of mouth cleaner and pain reliever spraying and also syringe for intralession fibrolytics gets activated after which the action of mouth opening mechanism unit is initiated. The level of mouth opening threshold and the number of times the task needs to be repeated can be set by the user by triggering the control input switches interfaced to the controller. After the input triggered by the control switch, the controller automatically does the mouth opening exercises. In such a way, automation in forceful mouth opening for the treatment of OSMF is attained in the proposed system.