Dental Data Planning System for Scan Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dental prosthetic design systems require extensive patient-specific data, which can be time-consuming and inefficient to collect, often leading to incomplete scans and design restarts, and separate knowledge bases for dental hardware and data planning, resulting in inefficiencies and potential failures in manufacturing and installation.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented user interface system that receives information about a desired dental data plan, determines necessary scanning steps, and displays them to the user, allowing for validation of the plan and listing required scans, materials, and their viability, thereby streamlining the data planning process and integrating knowledge of dental hardware and scanning requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional 3D design systems require extensive patient-specific data to be scanned and loaded, then the completeness and accuracy of the dental plan can be improved, but the time required for data collection increases significantly and the process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation of the dental plan against manufacturer specifications and physical constraints before the actual scanning and manufacturing process begins. This preliminary check identifies required scans, material viability, and potential failures in advance, preventing wasted time on incomplete or invalid plans.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback to the operator about the validity of the dental plan, highlighting missing scans, material constraints, and manufacturing feasibility issues. This feedback loop allows the operator to correct problems before proceeding, avoiding time loss from failed manufacturing attempts.
2Reliability
If the system validates the dental plan against manufacturer specifications and physical constraints, then manufacturing failures can be prevented, but the complexity of the planning process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs validation checks against manufacturer specifications and physical constraints without requiring manual intervention. The computer system autonomously identifies issues with the dental plan, reducing the burden on the operator while maintaining high validation standards.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary between the dental plan design and the actual manufacturing process, mediating by checking compatibility with manufacturer specifications and material constraints. This intermediary layer prevents direct transmission of flawed designs to manufacturing, reducing failures without adding significant complexity to the user interface.
3Measurement precision
If separate knowledge bases for dental hardware and data planning are maintained separately, then each knowledge base can be specialized and accurate, but the integration and coordination between them becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the dental hardware knowledge base and the data planning knowledge base into a single integrated system. This integration allows automatic cross-validation between hardware specifications and scan requirements, eliminating the inefficiencies of separate systems while maintaining the specialized accuracy of each knowledge domain.
Data Source
AI summary
Presented herein are methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media for dental data planning. In various embodiments, an operator of the system can design a dental data plan, have it checked, and see various aspects of the plan on the display. The plan may be designed in the abstract and that abstract plan can be checked for compliance with material and product constraints. Also from that abstract plan, a list of necessary scanning tasks may be produced and displayed. In some embodiments, plans for multiple patients can be designed and the scanning for those patients may commence before all of the patients are completed.