The invention relates to the technical field of digital
orthodontics, in particular to a tooth and gingiva modeling method suitable for digital
orthodontics application. The method comprises the following steps of: A, establishing a tooth local coordinate
system by using a segmented dental crown curved surface; B, determining a
tooth root section profile through a coordinate
system tooth root coordinate axis; C, performing two-dimensional
triangulation on the bottom surface of a
tooth root, and adding position constraints and tangential constraints to perform convex
shape control; D, generating tooth side grids by adopting a clustering method based on plane approximation and two-dimensional triangularization; E, optimizing side grids by adopting a Hermite curved surface interpolation
algorithm; and F, performing shape fusion on the dental crown, the bottom surface and the side surfaces to enable the teeth to form a closed and complete triangular
mesh model. The three-dimensional model can be obtained only through a
scanner, teeth and gingiva are accurately reconstructed, a complete and closed triangular
network model is formed, and the three-dimensional model can be used for orthodontic digital applications such as tooth arrangement design, orthodontic
animation demonstration and 3D printing.