The Student Student Student Dam to Enhance Patients’ comfort

ARSHIA SABET were in In the first year of his dental school at the University of Toronto when he realized that he could not tolerate rubber dental dams due to chronic allergies and blocking nasal passages, which often forced him to breathe in his mouth.

They are usually used for root channels and fills, dental dams are fine rubber leaves mounted on the mouth to isolate the teeth while dental work is performed, preventing liquids and debris from ingestion. But they also prevent many patients from breathing easily.

Sabet was determined to find a way to make the experience more comfortable.

“I knew that I could create a more breathable barrier because similar materials are available in mobile phone microphones,” says Sabet, a candidate doctor dental surgery at the U of U’s Dental School “by integrating a membrane,

“By enabling patients the opportunity to breathe through their mouths can also help them relax and reduce any stress they may feel during their process of shallow breathing.”

The result is Comfidamwhich the launch co-founded by Sabet-Comfidental Labs Inc.-values ​​as the first dental barrier in the world.

Sabet started working in original in early 2024 with HassarDentist at the University of Manitoba. That summer, showed the original Greg AndersonAssistant Professor, Teaching Electricity, at the Dental School, with the original, who ratified the problem Sabet wanted to face and gave feedback on the membrane of the device.

After depositing a patent, Sabet says he was approached by one of the world’s largest dental companies for the product.

Is now in the development and concentration stage and is supported by U of Hut Healthnection Hub (H2I) accelerator where he works Paul SanterreProfessor at the School of Dentistry and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and Dental consultant Travis Rodgers.

Sabet has also been supported by two of its classmates, Ali aghamohammadi and Hareet sidhuas well as the Dalhousie University Dental Student Sara arbabzadeh.

Sabet says he has learned a lot about the world of medical entrepreneurship, including aspects of patents, security and marketing of the development and marketing of a new product. He believes in the Dentistry School by providing some basic ideas that helped him as a student and as a businessman.

“One thing I have learned in dental school is if you are wrong. You have to fix it quickly,” he says. “I made the same approach while we developed this product – it is important to be okay with mistakes, feeding and finding the solution.”

As for his advice on other aspiring entrepreneurs, Sabet proposes to think about the solution he needs and not the invention itself.

“It’s not always important to focus on the product you can do. This is about focusing on the problem that already exists,” he says.

“It is more important to focus on the problem than focuses on products.”