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期望他们的治疗结果更好、更可预测、更经济，采用最新技术是实现这些目标的一个合乎逻辑的步骤。CAD/CAM和使用3d扫描和打印在许多行业中都很普遍，但许多牙医和牙科技术人员在完全采用这种数字方法方面相对较慢。采用该技术的障碍主要是：成本高，扫描技术的准确性差，以及某些更复杂但常见的牙科手术的使用限制。3d扫描仪扫描病人牙齿的印模或模型，用于牙科手术和牙科实验室。它们可以简化制作牙冠、牙桥、种植体和假牙的过程。然而，一个常见的问题是，对高度复杂的解剖结构进行的扫描不够精确，因此导致牙齿工作不佳，这可能导致失败或未来的并发症。至关重要的是，无法准确记录患者的下颌关系，并将其与关键面部标志数字化联系起来，这意味着许多数字技术在更先进的牙科修复重建和微笑设计治疗计划中的应用受到限制。克服这些问题将改善患者的体验和牙齿健康，并使复杂的临床过程更加高效。Mimetrik解决方案有限公司是利兹大学牙科学院数字牙科部门研发成果商业化的衍生公司，通过承担这个项目，该公司将寻求解决目前市场上所有3d扫描设备中常见的问题。在该领域世界领先专家十多年的工作基础上，已经在大型多中心试点研究中进行了测试和验证的先进原型将进一步开发，以确保该设备为商业生产做好准备，以便所有人都能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.