COMPARISON OF TECHNIQUES FOR ACQUIRING HIGH-PRECISION THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER-BASED GEOMETRIC DATA DIRECTLY FROM THE HUMAN MOUTH.

With current technologies, it is appropriate to consider alternative techniques which provide computer-based data from which the three-dimensional representation of the teeth and the jaws in motion can be recreated. The paper identifies newly developed data acquisition and imaging techniques to assess their value as a technique for acquiring data of the required precision, directly from a human mouth. The feasibility of utilizing the techniques in a dental clinic setting is discussed.