I just wanted to make something new, I have a similar project on my github called pc anatomy that blew up, basically dissecting an entire computer to the smallest cuda core.

I got to many messages from teachers wanting to use it to teacher their students, and the thought of something like that actually being useful got me excited. So I decided to make another open source but this time for students in the medical field, I felt like doing the entire anatomy of the body is too ambitious to start so I decided to start with the oral field.

I hope that answers your question, it all just kinda boils down to me wanting to help people and make something free and open-source, sort of to start a community around it.

The base anatomy comes from BodyParts3D, an open anatomical dataset from DBCLS which is openly licensed under CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan.

The tooth internals were modeled to fit the actual teeth so it’s a mix of open anatomical data, processing, and additional modeling.

The 3D models you see are rendered in a javascript framework called three.js, an awesome framework if I may say.

Thank you again for the kind words!