Tiny Functional Dental/General Purpose clip
Designed and built for dental use, this tiny spring loaded metal clip works exactly like the bigger clips, and can be used to hold tiny wires/metal strips in hands free mode! It can be used in any other application as deemed fit!

Background

The trigger to develop this was from Dr Nithin from JSS Dental College, who wanted as small clip as possible to hold a wire behind teeth, while doing dentristry tasks.

Dr Nitin V Muralidhar, MDS-Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics
Currently it is a cumbersome method to hold and cure adhesive for the dental practitioner, and so this clip was designed to use in Hands Free Mode.

Mini Dental clip firmly holding on to a visiting card!

Clip's working, spring etc in size comparison to a human hand.

Clip being tried on a dental cast.

Parts were laser cut and strategically bent to get its Shape, and then the clip was put together. A few types of custom made springs were fabricated with a third party, so this clip can have required tension to hold the target/wire.
Miniature Functional Clip for Dental use.

The clip came out extremely well in finish due to the laser cutting and good engineering design.