Managing the Development of Dental Care Using Digital Technologies

In the scientific article, based on social financial technologies, an economic and mathematical model of the development of a dental clinic in the manufacture and implementation of fixed structures of dentures using digital and analog methods in the production process has been developed in two versions: a single crown and a bridge prosthesis (two supporting crowns and two artificial teeth). The authors carried out the timing of the work of dental technicians at the laboratory stages of analog and digital production of polymer fixed structures of dentures. The results of chronometric observations of the manufacture of a single crown using analog and digital protocols showed that the time spent by a technician in digital manufacturing (97.78 min.) is 3.31 times less than the time spent by a dental technician using an analog protocol (393.31 min.), and in the manufacture of a bridge prosthesis, the digital protocol requires 3.22 times less time than analog, which proves the huge superiority of digital technologies over analog. The average time spread of a dental technician at the laboratory stages of the digital protocol is significantly less than the analog one, which indicates greater stability of digital technologies compared to analog ones in the manufacture of fixed denture structures. On the example of the actual data of the Clinical Center of Dentistry of the Clinic of A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry it is shown that the profitability of a bridge prosthesis using an analog protocol is negative, and the excess of the profitability of a digital protocol in relation to an analog one for a single crown is 9.92 times, which proves the economic efficiency of using three-dimensional printing in combination with social financial technologies compared with analog methods of manufacturing prototype prostheses.