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

在_S_Support的支持下，加的夫牙科学校和埃克塞特大学的数字制造研究中心X-AT致力于解决目前为正畸治疗提供的透明矫正器的不足。那些希望接受越来越受欢迎的“透明矫正器”正畸治疗的人目前必须在昂贵的“牙医主导”解决方案(如Invisign)和成本较低、但临床上无人监督的“居家”解决方案之间做出选择。目前，患者无法以负担得起的价格获得优质的牙医指导治疗。这项工业研究项目涉及探索和开发一种新的拟议解决方案，为患者部署清晰的对准治疗方案，以便由负责监督治疗的正畸专家直接进行有效的“诊所内”治疗计划。这消除了外包给离岸技术人员的巨额费用，由于当前临床治疗解决方案设计的复杂性，这是英国牙科/正畸诊所目前青睐的操作方式。拟议的新解决方案利用AI/ML、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对准器工作流程。这种由专家计划和监督的针对患者的治疗将促进更好的结果，并使大多数英国人更容易获得明确的ALIGNER。

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.