AI Dental Chair Progress Monitoring for Patient Anxiety Reduction
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Dental patients often experience anxiety and lack of information about the progress of their treatment due to language barriers, silent dentists, or disabilities, leading to a need for visual indicators of treatment progress.
Innovation Solution
A smart dental treatment chair equipped with video cameras, computerized vision analysis, and a Large Language Model to autonomously monitor and display real-time treatment progress, providing visual and auditory feedback to patients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a dentist performs treatment procedures, then treatment is provided, but patient understanding of treatment progress is reduced due to language barriers or silent work
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors treatment progress through computer vision and generates updates without requiring dentist intervention. The camera system continuously captures the treatment area, and the processing unit autonomously analyzes the video to determine current procedure steps, eliminating the need for the dentist to manually report progress while maintaining workflow continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides real-time feedback to patients about treatment progress through visual displays and audio announcements. The processing unit generates progress updates based on camera analysis and delivers them to patients, creating a closed-loop communication system that keeps patients informed without interrupting the dentist's work.
2Loss of information
If the dentist focuses on the treatment procedure, then treatment quality is improved, but communication with patient about progress is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system and processing unit automatically monitor and document treatment progress without requiring the dentist to divert attention from the procedure. The system self-monitors the treatment area through continuous video capture and analysis, maintaining reliable focus on treatment quality while simultaneously communicating progress to patients.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If visual indicators of progress are provided to patients, then patient anxiety is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera system serves multiple functions: it monitors treatment progress, captures images for records, and provides real-time visual feedback to patients. The processing unit simultaneously analyzes video data, generates progress reports, and controls display/output devices. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated systems while maintaining anxiety-reduction capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Smart dental treatment chair, and a system utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computerized vision analysis to dynamically monitor real-time progress of a dental treatment, to dynamically report the progress to the patient, and to provide additional benefits to dental patients. A dental treatment chair includes video cameras that capture real time video, and a microphone that captures sound and speech. Computerized vision unit perform analysis of the video, and a Large Language Model (LLM) performs analysis of text extracted from uttered speech, to determine the current step in a multiple-step dental procedure. A display unit is oriented towards the patient, and displays a dynamically-updated progress bar and percentage value, indicating the actual progress of the ongoing dental treatment. Optionally, the smart dental treatment chair also integrally plays music that the patient selects and controls, sprays an aromatic agent, and provides other benefits to the dental patient.