SMART Digital Solutions for Tooth loss: Partial Denture Workflow Innovation
Care Process & Redesign
National Healthcare Innovation and Productivity Medals
Others
SingHealth
26 December 2025
To create a faster, standardized, and more cost-effective solution for removable partial denture (RPD) fabrication. The standardized workflows reduce errors, optimize chairside time, and are built for broad adoption with continuous software updates.
Year Submitted: 2025
Published Date: 26 December 2025
Tags: Care Process ＆ Redesign, Product Development, Productivity, Time Saving, Quality Improvement, Design Thinking, Workflow Redesign
About this Content
Aims
To create a faster, standardized, and more cost-effective solution for removable partial denture (RPD) fabrication.
Background
Traditional RPD fabrication is manual, time-consuming, and dependent on skilled technicians, leading to inefficiencies and limited scalability. An aging population and increasing demand for RPDs necessitate improvements.
Methods
The SmartRPD Digital Workflow includes digital scanning, auto-RPD design generation, 3D printing for denture fabrication, cloud-based case storage & retrieval, RPD design toolkit, graphical model result inspection, and 3D component polyline editing functionality.
Results
Patient visits were reduced from 5 to 3, treatment duration shortened from 3 months to 1 month, clinician time decreased from 4 hours to 2 hours per case, and fabrication time improved to produce up to 30 RPD frameworks in 3 hours versus 1 framework in 11 hours.
Conclusion
The standardized workflows reduce errors, optimize chairside time, and are built for broad adoption with continuous software updates and training.
Lessons Learnt
The digital workflow reduces dependence on skilled technicians and empowers clinicians with digital tools.
Keywords
Digital, Denture, Workflow, 3D Printing, Efficiency
Innovators' Details
Innovators' Details
Healthcare Cluster(s) | SingHealth, Others |
Organization(s) Involved | National Dental Centre Singapore, A*STAR (IHPC) |
Platform(s) | National Healthcare Innovation and Productivity Medals |
Healthcare Professional Group(s) | Healthcare Administration, Medical, Others, Academia, Government Agencies |
Applicable Specialty or Discipline | Healthcare Administrators, Clinical Research, Operations, Medical, Dental / Dentistry |
Project Lead(s) | Yu Na |
Project Member(s) | See Toh Yoong Liang |
Connect with this contributor!
Yu Na - gmsyuna@nus.edu.sg
Project Attachment
1045_NDCS_NHIP_2025_SMART_Digital_Solutions_for_Tooth_loss_Partial_Denture_Workflow_Innovation.pdf