Revolutionizing Oral Healthcare: Exploring the Fusion of Digital Twin Technology with Data Analytics and Altair Radioss

Presentation by Dr. Jingchao Sun, R&D Senior Director at iLittleMiracle as part of Altair's Future.Industry 2024 conference.

Nowadays, orthodontists need to utilize digital tools to develop appropriate treatment plans for patients. Under the existing traditional techniques, it is difficult to predict the forces within the oral cavity and can only observe the outcomes. Clearly, this imposes numerous constraints on orthodontists. iLittleMiracle(iLM), however, employs the Altair Radioss solver to offer biomechanical simulations for each kid's every treatment stage, enabling orthodontists to analyze and anticipate the forces within the oral cavity. Consequently, orthodontists can combine their clinical experience and choose more rational treatment plans. Building upon this foundation, RomuTech utilizes the Radioss simulation results as an effective training dataset for data analytics machine learning. By integrating the advantages of high precision and efficient predictability, iLM provides orthodontists with reliable, efficient, and visualized digital tools. This marks the first application of digital twin technology in the field of dentistry, addressing industry pain points and leading the way into a new era of digital delivery.