Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : March 14, 2018 -
The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive review of published literature investigating various methods and techniques for the automated fabrication of dental wire in orthodontics and prosthodontics applications from the past two decades. Formerly, the wire bending operation for the wire-related treatment in dentistry application was manually done in laboratory production. The traditional method is used around the world until a few innovations in the computer-aided manufacturing of the wire bending emerged to automate the orthodontics archwire bending. The application of these advancements is only focusing on the braces treatment for the lingual and labial orthodontics, while the other wire-related treatments in prosthodontics and orthodontics application are still traditionally performed in the hand-made operation. Therefore, the present study reviews the bending technique of each invention to automatically bend the wire, in an attempt to propose the idea of a flexible dentistry wire bending system. In addition, the development trend is foreseen, and the limitations are discussed.
