ADA Standards—Specialty

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ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1058, Forensic Dental Data Set

• The purpose of this standard is to develop uniform nomenclature for the description of forensic dental data and define a standardized set of uniform terms to convey this information. The goal of the standard is not to define the extent of information collected, only to be certain that common terms are used in order to aid in an identifying human remains or a living amnesiac.

ADA Technical Report No. 1059, Guidelines for the Application of the DICOM Standard to Radiographic Cephalometric Data

• In the current DICOM documentation, cephalograms are not addressed directly. This technical report (TR) was developed to fill the gap in such a way as to provide imaging equipment vendors an approved way of storing cephalograms along with their clinically relevant data, in an interoperable way. In addition, this TR shall serve as a part of the foundation for the definition of ADA SCDI approved guidelines for the storage and transfer of orthodontic electronic patient records through the utilization of existing popular informatics standards.

ADA Technical Report No. 1065, Use Cases of the Orthodontic Health Record

• To create, initially a preliminary, eventually an approved list of common clinically related use-cases that define the utilization of the electronic health record within the scope of orthodontics; To continuously update the list, by adding or modifying use-cases, as needed by the orthodontic community; To encourage efforts to harmonize data definitions and technical specifications with other relevant data transmission standards and data storage standards.

ADA Technical Report No. 1112, Teledentistry

• The purpose of this Technical Report is to provide information for the profession on the informatics aspects of the evolving field of teledentistry and to assist providers in determining goals, selecting components, and creating working systems.

ADA Technical Report No. 1077, Human Age Assessment by Dental Analysis

• This document describes the methodologies and best practices for estimating the chronologic age of a living or deceased individual by analysis of the human dentition and associated maxillofacial structures.

ADA Technical Report No. 1088, Human Identification by Comparative Dental Analysis

• The scope of this technical report is to develop a recommended set of guidelines for the process of identifying humans by comparative dental analysis. A goal of this technical report is to create awareness and education for the dental practitioner about the forensic odontology identification process as well as understand what information may be required should their participation be necessary.

Proposed specialty standards

Below are proposed specialty standards that are currently being developed. To become involved in the development of these proposed standards, apply to volunteer.

Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1117, Dentistry – 3D Intraoral and Extraoral Surface Scans Functional Profile

• The project is to provide the clinical functional requirements needed to develop implementation guidelines and correction packages for 3D surface scans.

Proposed ADA Standard No. 1118, Dentistry – Implementation of Orthodontic ViewSets using DICOM

• Provide technical instructions to aid software developers in enhancing their software to support reading, writing and exchanging dental photographs organized in specific layouts (as defined in WP-1100). To provide proof of concept code or DICOM examples.

Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 217, Dentistry — Classification of Tooth Restorations Preparation

• This document establishes a system of classifying the location and depth of human tooth restoration preparations.

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