21 April,2011 07:22 AM IST | | Anurag Jadli
From indigenous dental implants to stain-resistant cotton, IIT Delhi will showcase its latest innovations in its annual tech festival
Next time, if your dentist tells you that you need a dental implant, don't worry about the cost. For the first time in the country, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi has developed dental implants. Once they are commercially available, their cost is likely to be half of the imported plants that dentists use currently.
An M.Tech final year student displays his innovation, a stain resistant
cotton. PIC/Rajeev Tyagi
"We have developed dental implants indigenously in our labs. So far, dental implants were imported but once the manufacture of these indigenous plants starts at commercial scale, their costs will be almost half of the imported ones. But before we tie up with some industry for their commercial manufacturing, we will be carrying out their human trials," said Professor Naresh Bhatnagar ofu00a0 mechanical engineering department.
Another interesting usage of technology was seen in the stain and water repellent cotton created by Tripurari Choudhary, an M.Tech final year student of fibre science and technology under the supervision of Professor Ashwani Aggarwal.u00a0 "In this the cotton has been treated with the plasma technology to make it more comfortable to wear and at the same time resist stains and water," said Tripurari.
