A comprehensive dental tool with
artificial intelligence to drill and measure quantifying immediate
tooth work such as enamel remaining, decay remaining, area requiring
filling and so forth utilizing live imaging should be an
interdisciplinary project that could be designed to increase dental
services at low cost to the masses.
The device would be something
like a boxer's mouth-guard vaguely, yet unlike it at all since it
would have diamond micro drills and feedback sensors devices, filling
measuring and packing devices and be controlled with artificial
intelligence wired into some sort of live tooth imaging system.
With the most data and advanced
technology that interdisciplinary designers can pack into the devices
it might be possible to mass-produce dental correction (and cleaning)
tools that could repair decayed teeth at very low cost.
With so much computer tech about
a device that could repair teeth and cost less than $300 might let
thousands of under-served villages get some basic tooth repair done,
although probably not more advanced work such as extraction and root
canals.
On another topic, low cost MR
screening for the public would be a good brain health analysis tool
for so many illnesses that may or may not affect the public from meth
use, smoking, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, football and concussive
head injuries etc. I wonder how many people would have a better idea
of the actual state of health or not of their brain regarding area of
loss, function and so forth and have an opportunity to act upon the
information if they had a realistic idea about their own health
status.
As it is with MR costs far to
high for anyone besides the prosperous to consider casual MR health
screening, very few use it comparatively and instead voodoo science
at best lets people remain uniformed of their own health status. In
theory diagnostic brain scanning should be as easy as blood pressure
screening.
