AI-Guided Dental Tool Imaging for Real-Time Implant Precision
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dental surgery methods lack real-time image analysis and guidance, leading to potential inaccuracies and risks such as damage to surrounding teeth or nerves, and excessive radiation exposure for dentists during CBCT imaging.
Innovation Solution
A dental treatment system using AI technology that integrates a camera on a robot arm or handpiece to analyze real-time images from a CBCT imaging unit, providing warnings via sound or lamp if the tool deviates from the target area, ensuring precise and safe surgery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If CBCT imaging is used to accurately recognize jawbone and tooth positions, then measurement precision is improved, but dentists are excessively exposed to radiation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a camera to capture optical images of the patient's mouth and generates a 3D surface model (copy) of the oral structures. This optical copy replaces the need for dentists to continuously view CBCT images during surgery, maintaining measurement precision through the digital model while eliminating radiation exposure. The 3D surface model serves as a safe visual replica that can be viewed repeatedly without radiation risk.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a camera-based optical imaging system as an intermediary between the CBCT imaging unit and the dentist. Instead of directly viewing CBCT images during surgery, the dentist uses the optical camera images and 3D surface model as an intermediate representation. This intermediary approach preserves the diagnostic information needed for precision while removing the harmful radiation exposure.
2Manufacturing precision
If real-time image analysis is implemented during surgery, then surgical precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the surgical tool handpiece multi-functional by integrating both the surgical operation capability and the real-time image capture function into a single device. The handpiece can perform both cutting/drilling operations and capture optical images during surgery. This universal design reduces the need for separate imaging devices and simplifies the overall system while maintaining surgical precision through real-time visual feedback.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the surgical tool and the imaging camera into an integrated system. The camera is mounted on or integrated with the surgical handpiece, allowing simultaneous surgical operation and image capture. This combination reduces device complexity by eliminating separate imaging equipment and simplifies the workflow by providing unified control and coordination between surgical actions and visual feedback.
3Ease of operation
If a camera is mounted on the surgical tool for real-time imaging, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the imaging function from the surgical tool's core surgical functions. The camera is added as a separate, modular component that can be attached to or integrated with the handpiece without fundamentally redesigning the surgical tool. This segmentation allows the surgical tool to maintain its original surgical capabilities while adding real-time imaging functionality, improving ease of operation without excessive complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The surgical handpiece serves itself by incorporating the imaging camera, allowing the tool to capture its own operational field and provide real-time visual feedback. This self-service capability eliminates the need for separate imaging devices and operators, simplifying the overall system operation while providing continuous visual guidance during surgical procedures.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a dental treatment system and method using AI technology, the dental treatment system comprising: a CBCT imaging unit which photographs the positions of the jawbone on the inside of the teeth and the teeth of a patient; a camera which selects a treatment tool used for a robot arm, tooth milling, and an implant procedure, and is installed on the selected treatment tool to obtain tooth and gum areas of the patient in real time; and an AI server which, on the basis of images photographed in advance by the CBCT imaging unit and images obtained in real time through the camera during treatment, recognizes when the treatment tool is close to a tooth and gum area to be treated, and according to a recognition result, determines whether to continue to proceed with treatment or give a warning.