MIRACLE: A CAD/CAM SYSTEM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL SURGICAL SPLINTS

Valery Naranjo, Roberto Lloréns, Mariano Alcañiz, Beatriz Rey, Salvador Albalat, Juan Fayos, Iñigo Morales

2010

Abstract

Nowadays, design and manufacturing process of dental prostheses is very handmade, time consuming and has a raised economic cost. Besides that, there is no objective methodology for the fulfillment of its functional design specifications. This paper presents an overview of MIRACLE project whose objective is the development and validation of an intelligent system for the design, simulation and flexible manufacture of implant-supported dental prostheses. The developed system in MIRACLE is a CAD/CAM system which allows to test the functional characteristics of dental prostheses considering mandible-maxilla interaction (called occlusion) using virtual models, contrary to most commercial solutions where this test is performed using expensive anatomical replicas tested with mechanical articulators and evaluated with patients. Another objective of MIRACLE is to develop a parametric finite elements model (FEM) of the whole prosthesis in order to analyze the failure risk of dental implants and prostheses before its surgical implantation enabling a re-design process. This paper is focused on the CAD/CAM subsystem developed in order to automatize the process of manufacturing surgical guides using several 3D models of the patient dental anatomy. A summarized version of the image processing step will be also presented. The CAD/CAM subsystem has been clinically validated achieving mean errors less than 5 degrees in the placement of the prosthetic crowns.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Naranjo V., Lloréns R., Alcañiz M., Rey B., Albalat S., Fayos J. and Morales I. (2010). MIRACLE: A CAD/CAM SYSTEM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL SURGICAL SPLINTS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: Special Session RAPID-Bio, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-017-7, pages 235-239. DOI: 10.5220/0002766202350239

in Bibtex Style

@conference{special session rapid-bio10,
author={Valery Naranjo and Roberto Lloréns and Mariano Alcañiz and Beatriz Rey and Salvador Albalat and Juan Fayos and Iñigo Morales},
title={MIRACLE: A CAD/CAM SYSTEM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL SURGICAL SPLINTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: Special Session RAPID-Bio, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={235-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002766202350239},
isbn={978-989-674-017-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: Special Session RAPID-Bio, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - MIRACLE: A CAD/CAM SYSTEM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF DENTAL SURGICAL SPLINTS
SN - 978-989-674-017-7
AU - Naranjo V.
AU - Lloréns R.
AU - Alcañiz M.
AU - Rey B.
AU - Albalat S.
AU - Fayos J.
AU - Morales I.
PY - 2010
SP - 235
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0002766202350239