A Web-based, Searchable Database of Orthodontic Case Files for Patient Care, Education, and Research
Presentation Date
9-14-2010
Description
In 2005, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology accepted a donation of 5650 unique orthodontic patient records (treatment records, dental X-rays, dental casts, intra-oral and full facial photographs) from an orthodontists practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1972 through 1999. This collection includes large samples of Hispanic and Native American populations, two groups not often encountered in orthodontic training in the United States or elsewhere. While investigators can use the collection on site at the Museum for approved research, a Web-based, de-identified version of the collection is being developed with input from orthodontics students and faculty from multiple institutions, so the collection can be freely accessed the world over. The database's unique design allows users to search for cases with particular characteristics of interest (e.g., patient ancestry, extraction patterns, diagnoses, and cephalometric parameters) and then review the sequenced intra-oral and X-ray images to observe variations of outcomes from treatments applied to patients with racial and other factors not often encountered in training or practice before.'
Document Type
Presentation
Conference/Presentation Location
International Medical Informatics Association
Language
English
Keywords
Biomedical Informatics, BMI, Orthodontic, Orthodontics, Case File
Recommended Citation
Kroth PJ, Edgar HJ, Harris EF, Kalishman S, Daneshvari S. A Web-based, Searchable Database of Orthodontic Case Files for Patient Care, Education, and Research. Abstract and scientific demonstration presented at MedInfo 2010, the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, September 14, 2010; Cape Town, South Africa.
Abstract
Comments
Abstract and presentation slides for the theater-style demonstration at MedInfo 2010 in Capetown, South Africa.