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Know Your Tooth – Thumb Sucking & Dental Development Teaching Interactive App

by Yogitha Chukkala, Jennie Stewart, Ziyun Huang

It was a collaborative and coordinated effort on an interactive interface for educational purposes, in this case to teach children the consequences of thumb sucking. This was made with the interest of teaching participants about thumb sucking and deformation of the teeth.

Steps that we have done

  • Coordinated a cross-functional student team, aligning members on educational objectives and session structure; contributed clinical expertise in paediatric dental development.
  • Designed scenes showing the animation of thumb sucking and how teeth get misaligned, controlled using a slider
  • Sourced models from Sketchfab, retopologised and corrected accordingly
  • Used Unity for animations and C# scripting to control the slider mechanism and buttons

Result: A part of the project showing animations of a child sucking their thumb, how teeth get misaligned, and what a parent should do to educate the child and stop the habit.

Thumb sucking Scene

Thumb Sucking Scene that is a part that I have developed

3D model Animation showing thumb sucking

3D model Animation showing thumb sucking

3D model Animation showing thumb sucking

3D model Animation showing thumb sucking and movement of the teeth

3D model that was taken from SketchFab and edited by me

3D model that was taken from SketchFab and edited by me this is used in the Anatomy Scene

3D model that was taken from SketchFab and edited by me

3D model that was taken from SketchFab and edited by me

Slider scene that controls the movement of the teeth

Slider scene that controls the movement of the teeth