Will your doctor offer you this as a possibility? Will they even know about it?
Sounds like a possibility for all sorts of uses for locked-in patients. But I don't know if tongue control still exists in those patients.
http://medcitynews.com/2013/12/wow-week-tongue-drive-wheelchair/?
I think I would rather figure out a way to do this without the piercing.
Georgia Tech professor Maysam Ghovanloo founded a startup that’s working
with the university to test a tongue-drive wheelchair. It works like
this: A magnet is attached to the tongue of a person who’s lost all
movement in his or her arms and legs, and a sensor headset is worn. As
the tongue moves, the sensor picks up the precise movement of the
magnet, sends it to a smartphone program which in turn sends a signal to
the wheelchair to move in that direction.
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