Digitalization in RPD

Abstract

Digital dental prosthodontics, referring to the process that clinicians and technicians participate in, to collect, analyze, and transmit the oral and facial digital information and to design and fabricate the restoration with the help of digital facilities and software, has good repeatability of operation and predictability of result, beneficial to quality supervision and risk management of the process and to the standardization and unification of clinic and laboratory. Therefore, the application of digital technology in dental prosthodontics is not limited to the digital information collection and CAD/CAM of the definitive restoration, but throughout the whole process of oral prosthesis; it should also include preoperative simulation analysis software, for example, Digital Line-plane Design (DLD) of West China Hospital of Stomatology, Digital Smile Design (DSD), 3Shape Smile Design, and so on, and digital recording and transmission of the design.