Grant: Alliance Grants

Across North America, dentists install more than 2.5 million dental crowns each year, which represents a market above $4 billion by 2025. Each of these crowns must be designed manually by a specialized technician, which generates high costs, significant delays and great variability in the quality of the prostheses. Started two years ago in partnership with the company Intellident Dentaire Inc., a first project made it possible to develop a highly innovative and unparalleled prototype in the world, capable of generating a crown for an isolated tooth from a 3D scan of a patient's mouth. This project aims to pursue the development of artificial intelligence methods for the generation of dental crowns in order to allow the treatment of more complex cases including, among others, the design of dental implants and bridges. This project also aims to develop automatic methods for designing dental preparations to provide references to dentists during their clinical interventions. This project will develop computer tools capable of quickly and automatically generating high quality tooth forms. These IT tools will also be integrated into an automatic crown design application, which will be made available to dentists directly in the clinic. This application will shorten the preparation times of prostheses for patients, reduce the costs of interventions and increase the quality and uniformity of the crowns produced.