Enabling In-Clinic Orthodontic Treatment Solutions with Advanced AI-Driven Digital Decision Support Systems and Novel Manufacturing Approaches

通过先进的人工智能驱动的数字决策支持系统和新颖的制造方法实现临床正畸治疗解决方案

• 批准号: 10068611
• 金额: $ 82.31万
• 依托单位: VITAWARE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10068611
• 关键词: Enabling; Clinic; Orthodontic; Treatment; Solutions

With _s_upport from Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst, Southwest SME Vitaware Ltd. and academic partners, Cardiff Dental School and University of Exeter's digital manufacturing research centre, X-AT, aim to address shortcomings in the current provision of clear aligners for orthodontic treatment.Those looking to receive increasingly popular "Clear aligner" orthodontic treatment must currently make a choice between prohibitively expensive "dentist-led" solutions (such as Invisalign), or lower-cost, but clinically unsupervised "at-home" solutions where risk of dental damage is high. There is currently no means for patients to receive quality dentist-led treatment at an affordable price-point.This industrial research project involves the exploration and development of a new proposed solution for deployment of clear aligner treatments to patients which facilitate efficient "In-Clinic" treatment planning directly by the orthodontic specialists overseeing treatments. This removes large fees involved in outsourcing to offshore technicians, which is the current favoured modus operandi for UK dental/orthodontic clinics due to the complexity of current solutions for designing treatment solutions in-clinic.The proposed novel solution leverages a combination of AI/ML, physics-based simulation and researches optimised small-scale manufacture to streamline, expedite and de-skill the end-to-end clear aligner workflow. Such patient-specific treatments planned and overseen by specialists will promote superior outcomes and make clear aligners vastly more accessible to the majority of the British population.

在Innovate UK的生物医学催化剂、西南中小企业Vitaware有限公司和学术合作伙伴、卡迪夫牙科学院和埃克塞特大学数字制造研究中心X-AT的支持下，旨在解决目前为正畸治疗提供的透明校准器的缺点。那些希望接受越来越受欢迎的“透明校准器”正畸治疗的人目前必须在昂贵的“牙医主导”解决方案（如Invisalign），或成本较低，但临床上无人监督的“在家”解决方案，其中牙齿损伤的风险很高。目前，患者无法以可负担的价格接受高质量的牙医主导的治疗。该工业研究项目涉及探索和开发一种新的拟议解决方案，用于为患者部署清晰的矫正器治疗，从而促进由正畸专家直接监督治疗的有效“诊所内”治疗计划。这消除了外包给离岸技术人员所涉及的巨额费用，这是目前英国牙科/正畸诊所最受欢迎的操作方式，因为目前设计诊所治疗解决方案的解决方案非常复杂。拟议的新解决方案利用人工智能/机器学习，基于物理的模拟和研究优化的小规模制造的组合，以简化，加快和降低端到端的清晰矫正器工作流程的技能。这种由专家计划和监督的针对患者的治疗将促进上级结果，并使大多数英国人口更容易获得矫正器。