Robotics in Dental Implantation

This paper presents the application of robotics in the process of Dental Implantation process. The paper presents a prototype of a robotic arm, which can assist the dentist in the drilling the drill site for the dental implantation. The prototype robotic arm developed is a basic model, which given the location of the drill site would reach the particular location. It utilizes the given location coordinates, actuates the motors through the drivers to give the necessary movement for the robotic arm to approach the drill location. The robotic arm traverses to the required coordinates and drills a hole of required depth at the destination. The construction specifications and design are discussed in the paper along with the challenges this model has to overcome to replicate the manual implantation procedure. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.