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Magnetic weight loss device that locks jaw almost shut created to 'fight global obesity epidemic'
A weight loss device which uses magnets to stop a person's jaw from opening wide enough to eat solids has been developed by scientists in New Zealand and the UK.
The team, which involved medical professionals from the University of Otago and Dr Jonathan Bodansky and Dr Richard Hall from Leeds in England, say they created the device to help fight the global obesity epidemic.
The university tweeted: "Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic: an intra-oral device that restricts a person to a liquid diet."
Called the DentalSlim Diet Control, the fixture can be fitted by a dentist to the upper and lower back teeth.
It then uses magnetic devices with unique locking bolts.
The device, which allows users to open their mouths by only 2mm, was fitted in the mouths' of seven healthy obese women from Dunedin in New Zea