A professor at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry has invented the Virtual Facebow app, designed to help dentists with diagnosis and treatment.
The app, developed by LesKalman, DDS, is available in the Android market and also acts as an educational guide for dental students or patients undergoing treatment, according to the university's news service.
Dr. Kalman said allowing dentists to do everything from establishing the lower jaw cast to the upper with an accurate bite, creating an aesthetic tooth guide prior to treatment, and emailing entire datasets in JPEG or PDF formats -- all with a simple touch of their finger -- is a big step forward.
Dr. Kalman will present a clinical study on his new app in October at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry's meeting in Phoenix. The app has also been earmarked as a finalist in the Intel App Innovation contest.
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