Delta Dental provides dental insurance to over 85 million Americans. Based in Okemos, Michigan, they are the largest dental insurance provider in the nation. Over the past 15 years, Delta Dental companies and their foundations have invested over $2.3 billion to improve the oral and overall health of our communities.

Delta Dental processes millions of insurance claims per year. As claims go through Delta Dental’s processing system, further human review by adjudicators may be required to validate the claim, based on existing patient information.

The Dynamic 3D Mouth Model is an interactive tool for exploring a patient’s dental history, helping Delta Dental adjudicators. Our tool helps users visualize a patient’s dental history with user-specific designs (shown on the right) populating a personalized mouth model for each customer.

Claims specialists can create their own tooth designs representing dental procedures, varying in shape and color. When a procedure is performed on a tooth, the corresponding tooth design is applied to it in the mouth model. With the teeth varying in appearance, it is easier to visualize the history of a patient’s mouth.

Our software features a homepage where Delta Dental experts explore all of their created designs, create new designs, or edit an existing design. Design editing is facilitated by an intuitive 3D editor. In the editor, users can reshape and color the surface of any tooth. Finally, the viewer tab displays the full mouth model visualization of the curated designs.

The Dynamic 3D Mouth Model streamlines Delta Dental’s claim review process by consolidating entire dental histories in a single place with clear visualization, saving valuable time for users.

The web application is developed using Angular and Three.js, enabling visualization through a 3D interface. The back end integrates SQLAlchemy with FastAPI to implement endpoints.