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Using AR To Show The Results Of Dental Work

Using AR To Show The Results Of Dental Work
by Adi Gaskell

Augmented reality has had a number of interesting applications in healthcare in the past year, from a whole bunch of training applications all the way to infection control.

One of the more interesting applications comes from a Swiss team who are using the technology to show patients how their dental surgery might look once its complete. Of course, such forecasting is already offered to patients, but it usually requires a plaster cast being made of the patient’s teeth, with the dentist then inserting missing teeth with wax and creating a 3D model that the patient can try. All in all it’s a pretty time consuming process.

Kapanu are a Swiss startup spun out of ETH, and they’ve developed augmented reality software to show the results of dental reconstruction within seconds. The system takes a video recording of the patient’s teeth, with a virtual model of the new teeth then superimposed on top. Indeed, so powerful is the system that patient’s can try out more than one alternative, adjusting the length or shape of the teeth with a few mouse clicks.

Read full article on Huffington Post.