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  • Dentistry
  • Orthodontics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Accurate tooth orientation is crucial for dental diagnostics and treatment planning.
  • Existing methods for measuring tooth position may lack precision or comprehensive data.
  • Digital dental casts offer a promising platform for advanced analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and describe a novel measuring system for tooth orientation in digital jaw casts.
  • To establish new normative angular values for tooth rotation, torque, and tip in both maxillary and mandibular teeth.
  • To provide a foundation for reappraising ideal occlusion and alignment parameters.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a retrospective cross-sectional study design with a large dataset (>17,500 patients).
  • Employed extrinsic Euler angles to define tooth orientation in three planes: rotation, torque, and tip.
  • Developed and applied an automated software system (Smyl:Ai) for analyzing stereolithography (.STL) files of dental casts.

Main Results:

  • Analyzed digital scans from 1914 individuals with optimal occlusion.
  • Determined new mean and standard deviation angular values for rotation, torque, and tip for maxillary and mandibular teeth.
  • Validated the accuracy and efficiency of the automated measurement system.

Conclusions:

  • The new angular values facilitate a reappraisal of currently accepted ideal tooth position parameters.
  • Findings provide essential baseline data for anthropologists, dental researchers, and orthodontists.
  • The developed methodology enables efficient analysis of large datasets for future research in occlusion and alignment.