Disappears when not in use.
The Alsteni System™ is the first invisible, removable feeding tube — an intraorally-anchored alternative to nasogastric and PEG tubes. No tube on the face. No surgical hole. Nothing visible at all.
A market that has seen almost no innovation in decades. Products work medically — nutrients go in, patients survive — so manufacturers have had little incentive to improve the experience. But surviving is not the same as living.
Grand View Research, Global Enteral Feeding Devices Market, 2024
A population growing every year as cancer survival improves and the population ages. These patients need nutrition delivered past the stomach — but current options force a choice between visibility and health.
ASPEN Clinical Guidelines, 2024
42 million Americans live with Type 2 diabetes — a $400B annual burden on the U.S. healthcare system. The American Diabetes Association now endorses Total Dietary Replacement (TDR) as a management strategy. Published TDR trials have demonstrated remission rates as high as 87% (DiRECT, Lean et al. 2018). These protocols require precise enteral nutrition delivery — the core capability the Alsteni System is being developed to provide.
ADA Standards of Care, 2024; Taylor et al., DiRECT Trial, The Lancet, 2018
Patients who need enteral nutrition skip family gatherings, avoid photographs, eat alone — because the sight of tube feeding makes others uncomfortable. Body image concerns and social isolation drive many to refuse feeding tubes entirely. Today's options force an impossible choice: a nasogastric tube taped across your face that brands you as sick, or a PEG tube — a surgical hole in your abdomen with lifelong wound care. There has been no meaningful alternative — until now.
- Taped across the face — every person you meet knows you're sick
- Dislodges regularly, requiring painful reinsertion
- Patients stop going out, skip family events, eat alone
- A permanent hole in the abdomen — even if the condition resolves
- Daily wound care, ongoing infection risk at the stoma site
- Irreversible body modification that leaves permanent scarring
Three steps. Then it vanishes.
A short dental visit. A simple placement by your doctor. Then nothing visible — anywhere. The Alsteni System is the first feeding platform that disappears completely between uses.
A 30-minute visit
A general dentist places a small, permanent anchor using the same orthodontic materials found in millions of braces. It's completely invisible from the moment it's placed.
Placed by your doctor
A physician places a thin feeding tube into position. A proprietary connector locks it in place during use.
Forget it's there
Between feedings, the tube retracts entirely inside the mouth. Nothing on the face. Nothing on the neck. Nothing on the body. No one knows.