Crazy 1960s radio transmitters

[Alex Eisenhut]

Six of them if the article is accurate. It's from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 1966...

I also found this short article about it:

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1965/9/18/broadcasting-your-bite

I'm not sure I'd volunteer for this type of nuttiness, couldn't they just glue sensors to a normal tooth and have wires to the outside??

And how the heck did they recharge those batteries? Did the volunteer have to stick his head into a 1965 Amana Radarange?

I wonder if this really happened or it was just someone's plan at the time, I can't find any corroborating info. If the idea was to have the tooth broadcasting continuously you'd need to be near a receiver and a chart recorder when chewing I suppose. There weren't any IBM 360s that could fit in a tooth in 1965. Right?

Anyone ever hear of this??

[amyk]

It seems the original paper for that was titled "The use of Multiple Radio Transmitters in Studies of Tooth Contact Patterns":
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14248780/
...and while I can't seem to find the full text of the article anywhere, attached are two of the related ones I could find. Yes, this was really a thing back then!

[Alex Eisenhut]

Cool, thanks. I really thought they looked for people to yank a tooth out... Of course it makes more sense to use someone who already has a missing tooth.