Dental hygiene and periodontal hand instrumentation tutor
AssigneeAngela Monson
InventorsAngela Monson, Vincent Bush
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Abstract
Dental hygiene and periodontal hand instrumentation requires alignment of the cutting surface of the instrument at a specific angle and adaptation to the tooth surface. A dental hygiene and periodontal hand instrumentation tutor provides an objective, consistent and accurate way to measure and display the actual angulation and adaptation angles of a periodontal hand instrument and assess instrument use continuously. The method includes detecting the position, orientation, motion path, pressure, angulation angle, adaptation angle, and centerline angle of a periodontal hand instrument and comparing them to ideal positions, orientations, and motion paths; and provides various forms of user feedback.
Claims8
A dental hygiene and periodontal hand instrumentation tutor, comprising:
- a dental hygiene and periodontal hand instrument;
- an instrument sensor for determining a position and an orientation of the instrument;
- a target in communication with a tracking system, the target comprising a target surface and a target sensor for determining a position and an orientation of the target surface;
- the tracking system in communication with the instrument sensor, the tracking system being configured to determine the position and the orientation of the instrument and the position and an orientation of the target surface;
- a core system in communication with the tracking system, the core system being configured to calculate an angulation angle, an adaptation angle based upon the orientation of the instrument and the orientation of the target surface, and a motion path of the instrument, wherein the instrument comprises a trigger configured to indicate a beginning and an end of the motion path of the instrument when triggered by a user;
- and an evaluation system in communication with the core system, the evaluation system being configured to produce at least one of angulation angle feedback information, adaptation angle feedback information, instrument location feedback, or instrument motion path feedback information, and sending correction feedback to the user showing how to make corrections to at least one of the motion path, the angulation angle, or the adaption angle of the instrument, and a dental hygiene proficiency score and/or a dental hygiene scaling score based on parameters of how well the angulation angle and the adaptation angles are maintained throughout the motion path of the instrument and/or how well the motion path of the instrument tracks an ideal motion path, based on the respective at least one of the angulation angle feedback information, the adaptation angle feedback information, the instrument location feedback, or the instrument motion path feedback information, wherein the correction feedback includes at least one of sounds or vibration.
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