Dental Implant Coordination Database for Scheduling Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of dental implants is cumbersome due to the lack of coordination between general dentists and specialists, and there is no systematic way to track dental implant components and patient records, leading to potential errors and inefficiencies in scheduling and maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A database-driven, computer-mediated application that facilitates coordinated scheduling of dental implant procedures and tracks dental implant components and patient records, allowing for seamless communication between dentists, specialists, and manufacturers, enabling efficient maintenance and improving the tracking of dental implant efficacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual coordination between general dentists and specialists is used for dental implant scheduling, then flexibility in communication is maintained, but the process becomes painstaking and error-prone with significant loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized database system that acts as an intermediary between general dentists, specialists, and manufacturers. This database automatically stores and retrieves dental implant information, schedules procedures, and coordinates communications, eliminating the painstaking manual coordination process while reducing errors and saving time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical coordination system (phone calls, paperwork, in-person meetings) with an automated computer-based information system. This substitution enables instant access to patient records, implant specifications, and scheduling information, dramatically improving productivity and reducing time loss.
2Reliability
If dental implant records are maintained separately by different dental professionals, then each practitioner has access to their own treatment details, but the records become difficult to obtain, interpret, or even unavailable when needed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously separate and fragmented dental implant records into a single centralized database. This consolidation ensures that all dental professionals involved in a patient's care can access complete implant information, including manufacturer details, part numbers, and treatment history, making records readily available and easy to interpret.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized database serves multiple functions: storing patient records, tracking implant components, scheduling procedures, and providing access to all dental professionals. This universal system ensures that regardless of which practitioner is treating the patient, the complete implant information is reliably available.
3Ease of repair
If detailed tracking of dental implant components is implemented, then maintenance and repair accuracy is improved, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy or record of each physical dental implant component in the centralized database, storing manufacturer information, part numbers, and specifications. This digital documentation simplifies maintenance and repair by providing accurate component identification without requiring complex physical tracking mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A dental patient interface on a computing device may display data related to a dental patient. The data may include identifying information for the dental patient, dental appointment scheduling information for the dental patient, and dental history information regarding a plurality of teeth of the dental patient. The dental patient interface may receive a selection of a particular tooth of the plurality of teeth. Possibly in response to the selection of the particular tooth, the dental patient interface may display a dental history of the particular tooth, the dental history including dental implant information. The dental implant information may identify dental implant components forming the particular tooth or prosthesis by implant manufacturer and/or part number.