orthoscience.com

• approached dolphinimaging.com for integration
• Like Pintrest for ortho.
• Integration with Dolphin
• Dolphin can de-identify
• Parallel effort by AAO: the board approved to create an orthodontic case database, which might compete with this.
• Dolphin could upload some data to orthoscience, but codes have to be well defined.
• Problem with orthoII: It's too customizable, so data can't participate in big data, because everyone creates their own parameters instead of using codes.
• SNOMED/SNODENT codes are currently not being used, Ken Gladstone and Mark Hans were not aware of them.
• How about the DI score Discrepancy Index? Is this in SNODENT? Should this be considered for orthoscience integration.
• Some members include Stuart Frost, Francesco Garino... (see http://www.orthoscience.com/team)

American Orthodontist

• New Journal Elsevier journal
• online only
• a lot more clinical, with case reports
• Buzz Behrents as one editor

Dentacoin

• Blockchain in dental field.
• Not clear what they actually do.
• Most of the team members have Bulgarian, Russian and eastern European names.
• Have mobile app

Dental Monitoring

• Is growing and expanding in the US
• They are developing their technology, keeps getting better.

smiledirectclub

• they don't talk about straightening teeth, but straightening smiles.
• there are all kinds of disaster stories
• maybe Mark Hans  can compete with them
  • Is smiledirect polymers really special as they say? After testing on chemical properties of thermoplastic materials, there is nothing special about it.
  • Carla Evans  there are 3 published articles which study polymers of aligners, for things like discoloration and other properties, and other properties.

Teeth segmentation

• Collected and compared times for humans to segment teeth and mesh repair time from study model scans with Orchestrate, MotionView (w and wo facial axis and teeth)
  • Repair the mesh
  • Segment the teeth
• Which one is better? Fast, but dirtier? How about quality?
• Times are always less then 4m per scan.
• Bottom line is: a a private orthodontist can compete with smiledirectclub and still make a profit.

Printing Brackets

• Torque on the base: ISO standard for torque on tooth, definitions, abbreviations and measurements.
  • Big change is corrosion testing: if you print metal brackets you have to worry about corrosion.
• Can you print brackets with 3D printers? Yes. Printing Ch-Co printer and Stainless Steel. It's called centering for metal.
  
  • Is it economical? Probably not economical: if you do the math $0.60/bracket, but the printer is $300k. So if you have the printer, it'OK
• Printing with polymers should be possible with strong polymers.