Predicting the development of a dental condition
Assignee3Shape A/S
InventorHenrik John Brandt
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Abstract
Disclosed is method, a user interface, a computer program product and a system for predicting future development of a dental condition of a patient's set of teeth, wherein the method comprises: —obtaining two or more digital 3D representations for the teeth recorded at different points in time; —deriving based on the obtained digital 3D representations a formula expressing the development of the dental condition in terms of at least one parameter as a function of time; and—predicting the future development of the condition based on the derived formula.
Claims20
A method for determining caries in a patient's set of teeth, wherein the method comprises:
- obtaining a first digital 3D representation comprising data of the set of teeth at a first point in time, wherein the first digital 3D representation comprises first infrared-transparency data;
- segmenting the set of teeth in the first digital 3D representation;
- analyzing the first infrared-transparency data to derive a parameter expressing development of caries in the segmented set of teeth;
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- visualizing the first infrared-transparency data together with the first digital 3D representation.
A system for determining caries in a patient's set of teeth, the system comprising:
- an electronic data processing unit and a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program product comprising one or more instructions which when executed by the electronic data processing unit provide a digital tool configured for assisting a user in performing a method of:
- obtaining a first digital 3D representation comprising data of the set of teeth at a first point in time, wherein the first digital 3D representation comprises first infrared-transparency data;
- segmenting the set of teeth in the first digital 3D representation;
- analyzing the first infrared-transparency data to derive a parameter expressing development of caries in the segmented set of teeth;
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- visualizing the first infrared-transparency data together with the first digital 3D representation.
A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer readable program code being executable by a hardware data processing unit to cause the hardware data processing unit to:
- obtain a first digital 3D representation comprising data of a set of teeth at a first point in time, wherein the first digital 3D representation comprises first infrared-transparency data;
- segment the set of teeth in the first digital 3D representation;
- analyze the first infrared-transparency data to derive a parameter expressing development of caries in the segmented set of teeth;
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- visualize the first infrared-transparency data together with the first digital 3D representation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.