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Software standards are becoming increasingly popular in the medical field, reducing the risk of patient data loss and allowing for greater data interchange. Many medical fields have either already developed or are currently developing standards. Yet, there still exists no software standard in the orthodontic field.

Our goal is to (1) develop a public orthodontic software standard, approved by clinicians, developers and accredited institutions worldwide and (2) implement the standard in a free, open-source, platform independent software package.

By collaborating with the American Dental Association Standards Committee for Dental Informatics, Health Level Seven and the NEMA DICOM we plan to extend DICOM and HL7 to accommodate all orthodontic data needs and include the instructions of the extended DICOM standard in an ADA Technical Report. Independently, we plan to prove the functionality of the standard by writing a program that directly implements it. The final products (all standard definitions and the implemented software) are meant to be publicly available free of charge to facilitate their distribution.

Antonio Magni