Abstrakt

Augmented reality in dentistry

Huda Abutayyem, Israa, Alaa Al Kha

With each passing day, technology evolves, improving prospects in multiple fields in life. Whether in the applied sciences fields, education, military, sports, entertainment industry, medical field, dental field, or others. Digital transformation is a phrase that is omnipresent in a broad spectrum of business sectors, and the dental field is no exception. Technology has advanced; facilitating and helping the dentists to diagnose and treat patients. Many digital production management workflows have already been implemented into treatment protocols, especially in the fast-growing Computer-Aided Design\Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAD\CAM), Rabid Prototyping (RP), automated processing in radiological imagining by the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), and Augmented and Virtual reality (AR\VR). Dental and medical fields also prospered due to the variety of AR technology utilization; thus, affecting multiple departments. One of those utilizations is Image-Guided Therapy (IGT), and Image-Guided Interventions (IGI), which is image identification and tracking system that is used by surgeons to provide an accurate surgical position or to allow the surgeons to practice before the surgery. Besides surgeons, these technologies is also used by dental implantologists, for delivering a successful treatment and reduce the risk of dental implants.