Interdisciplinary crossover for rapid advancements - collaboration between medical and engineering scientists with the focus on Serbia

Abstract

Over the past decades, development of engineering sciences has incredibly contributed to advancements in medicine by production of numerous devices for diagnostics and treatment. In the middle of the twentieth century, a new scientific field, biomedical engineering (BE), was established, which has developed into an extremely complex scientific discipline requiring a distinctive educational profile. Various study programs in BE have been established at universities around the world but also at several universities in Serbia. Also, intensive research in this field is performed at several scientific institutions in Serbia. In the present paper short summaries of the research results of several groups of engineers and medical doctors are presented as an illustration of the wide field of BE research and possibilities of its application in diagnosis and therapy of various diseases.

Dentistry 4.0 concept in designing and manufacturing removable partial denture frameworks

“…The result is deleting borders between the physical and digital. This deleting of boundaries led to automation and robotization going at the expense of cyber-physical systems (CPS) that were enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing [1][2][3] . Analogous to the Fourth industrial revolution, dentistry conceived in this way is called Dentistry 4.0.…”

“…Thanks to Dentistry 4.0, a number of diagnostic as well as laboratory and clinical procedures have become part of the CPS. There are many areas of dentistry where diagnosis, planning and therapy are based on highly automated processes and digitalized flows (digital impressions, computerassisted designed and computer-assisted manufactured dentures technology, digital radiography and cone-beam computer topography (CBCT), digital face-bow and virtual articulators, computer-guided implant surgery, and computer-guided diagnostics and treatment in orthodontics), etc 1,2 .…”