Clinical Development and Validation of a Novel Optical Facebow based on Deep Learning

数字牙科是未来。牙科患者和牙科专业人员都越来越希望他们的治疗效果更好，更可预测，更经济实惠，采用最新技术是实现这些目标的合理步骤。CAD/CAM和3D扫描和打印的使用在许多行业都很常见，但许多牙科医生和牙科技师在完全采用这种数字方法方面相对缓慢。主要是高成本、扫描技术的低精度以及对于某些更复杂但常见的牙科过程的使用限制。扫描患者牙齿的印模或模型的3D扫描仪在牙科手术和牙科实验室中使用。它们可以简化制作牙冠、牙桥、种植体和假牙的过程。然而，这是一个常见的问题，往往是什么是一个高度复杂的解剖结构所采取的扫描是不必要的不够准确的工作，因此导致不适合牙科工作，这可能会导致失败或未来的并发症。重要的是，无法准确记录患者的颌骨关系，并将其与关键的面部标志数字化，这意味着许多数字技术在更先进的修复性牙科重建和微笑设计治疗计划中的应用有限。克服这些问题将改善患者体验，牙齿健康，并使复杂的临床过程更加高效简化。通过承担这个项目，Mimetrik Solutions Ltd，一个分拆公司成立，以商业化的研究和开发输出的数字牙科系的牙科学院在利兹大学，将寻求解决常见的问题，在所有的三维扫描设备目前在市场上。在该领域世界领先专家十多年工作的基础上，将进一步开发一种先进的原型，该原型已经在大型多中心试点研究中进行了测试和验证，以确保该设备已准备好进行商业生产，以便所有人都可以获得它所带来的好处。

Digital dentistry is the future. Dental patients and dental professionals alike increasingly expect better, more predictable and cost-efficient outcomes for their treatment and incorporating the latest technology is a logical step in achieving those aims.CAD/CAM and the use of 3d scanning and printing is in common use in many industries, but many dentists and dental technicians have been relatively slow to fully adopt this digital approach.The barriers to adoption entry are: in the main, high cost, poor accuracy of the scanning technology and limitations of use for certain more complex, but common dental procedures.3d scanners, which scan impressions or models of a patient's teeth, are in use in both dental surgeries and dental laboratories and. They can simplify the process of creating dental crowns, bridges, implants and dentures., hHowever, it is a common problem too often thethat scans taken of what is a highly complicated anatomical structure are insufficientlynot accurate enough to work from and consequently result in poor fitting dental work which may lead to failure or future complications. Critically, the inability to accurately record the patient's jaw relationship and relate that to key facial landmarks digitally means that much digital technology has limited applications in more advanced restorative dentistry reconstruction and smile design treatment planning.Overcoming these problems will improve patient experiences, dental health and make a complicated clinical process much more efficientstreamlined.By undertaking this project, Mimetrik Solutions Ltd, a spin-out company incorporated to commercialise the research and development output of the Digital Dentistry Department of the School of Dentistry at the University of Leeds, will seek to solve the issues commonly seen in all the 3d scanning equipment currently available in the marketplace. Building on over ten years' work by world- leading experts in the field, an advanced prototype that has already been tested and validated in a large multi-centre pilot study will be developed further to ensure the device is ready for commercial manufacture so that the benefits it can bring can be accessed by all.