Digital Tooth Setup Manipulator for Integrated Orthodontic Functions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dental software requires additional manipulation and separate steps for functions like tooth extraction, interproximal reduction, and tooth fixation, leading to decreased user convenience and increased workload.
Innovation Solution
A digital tooth setup method using manipulators on a loop-shaped guide interface that integrates tooth movement, rotation, extraction, fixation, and interproximal reduction, with collision compensation and visualization, allowing simultaneous application of these functions on a single screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If separate pages are used for tooth extraction, interproximal reduction, and tooth fixation functions, then each function can be performed independently, but user convenience decreases and additional manipulation steps are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple orthodontic treatment functions (tooth movement, rotation, extraction, interproximal reduction, and fixation) into a single integrated interface. The manipulator displays all these functions simultaneously, eliminating the need to navigate to separate pages for each operation, thus improving user convenience while maintaining functional independence through organized layout
Solution Approach 2:
The manipulator is designed as a universal interface that can perform multiple orthodontic operations on a single tooth or multiple teeth simultaneously. Users can access tooth movement, rotation, extraction, interproximal reduction, and fixation functions all from one manipulator display, making the interface multi-functional and reducing the need for separate specialized pages
2Adaptability or versatility
If manipulators are displayed for individual teeth with full functionality, then comprehensive tooth setup is possible, but the interface becomes cluttered and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The manipulator interface is segmented into distinct functional zones or groups, with each section representing a specific orthodontic operation (movement, rotation, extraction, etc.). This segmentation allows comprehensive functionality to be maintained while organizing controls in a structured, easy-to-navigate layout that reduces visual clutter and improves usability
3Manufacturing precision
If collision compensation is automatically performed, then accuracy of tooth positioning is improved, but additional processing time is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary collision detection and compensation calculations automatically as teeth are moved or rotated, before the final positioning is confirmed. This preliminary action ensures accurate tooth positioning by pre-calculating collision avoidance, while the automation of this process minimizes the time burden on the user, as the compensation occurs in the background during the setup process
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AI summary
Disclosed are a digital tooth setup method using a graphical user interface for tooth setup and a device therefor. The digital tooth setup method according to an embodiment can dispose, on a loop-shaped guide interface, a manipulator including at least one of a tooth fine-adjustment interface and an interface for a treatment technique. Therefore, use convenience can be increased when teeth are set up by using the manipulator.