“Hey, I’m English. What do I know about teeth?” So says Aidan Butler, CEO of Guardlab, Inc, who runs a company that makes a product that protects your teeth. Actually, Butler knows A LOT about teeth, and through his partnership with a couple of enterprising dentists, he has become almost uncannily well-versed on pearly whites, jaws, and even the way you breath. As we walk around the Guardlab headquarters in Farmingdale, NY (45 minutes east of the city), he pauses at a computer station to pull up a floating three-dimensional scan of some anonymous person’s chompers—they're...not great. Nevertheless, I can see them in great detail, from the gums to pointy incisors. Soon this scan will manifest as a hard plastic reproduction of the real thing thanks to one of their 3D printers. Elsewhere, a technician will use a machine to melt some proprietary goopy plasticky type stuff (science) over the faux set and voila: a neuromuscular guard, designed to keep ones jaw on tight when one gets smacked, hard. Just the kind of thing that happens when, say, Conor McGregor gets you in the ring.
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