Artificial intelligence-designed single molar dental prostheses: A protocol of prospective experimental study.

Journal: PloS one
PMID: 35653388

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dental prostheses, which aim to replace missing teeth and to restore patients' appearance and oral functions, should be biomimetic and thus adopt the occlusal morphology and three-dimensional (3D) position of healthy natural teeth. Since the teeth of an individual subject are controlled by the same set of genes (genotype) and are exposed to mostly identical oral environment (phenotype), the occlusal morphology and 3D position of teeth of an individual patient are inter-related. It is hypothesized that artificial intelligence (AI) can automate the design of single-tooth dental prostheses after learning the features of the remaining dentition.

Authors

  • Reinhard Chun Wang Chau
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Ming Chong
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Khaing Myat Thu
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Nate Sing Po Chu
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam
    Department of Health Sciences Research and Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
  • Richard Tai-Chiu Hsung
    Department of Computer Science, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Colman McGrath
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
  • Walter Yu Hang Lam
    Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.

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