A 2-year-old Ann Arbor startup that has developed a moldable, custom-fitted mouth guard is trying to market the product and its value propositions to a high-school and college athletic equipment industry crowded with competitors.

 

Akervall Technologies Inc. as developed the Protech Dent mouth guard, a strip of 1.6-millimeter-thick plastic that users dunk into hot water and mold around their upper teeth.   READ MORE >

From Concentrate,  June 30th, 2010

Akervall Technologies puts entrepreneurship where its mouth is

Entrepreneurs everywhere are trying to build the better mousetrap. Ann Arbor's Jan and Sassa Akervall believe they have built a better mouth guard.

Dr. Jan Akervall – an ear, nose and throat specialist – invented the mouth guard while figuring out a way to protect his patients' teeth from being chipped during medical procedures. That gave rise to his start-up, Akervall Technologies, and its principal product, Protech Dent. http://www.concentratemedia.com/innovationnews/akervalltechnologiesannarbor0109.aspx