Starting in January of this year, the new babies born will be called “Generation Beta,” meaning they will
never have seen a world without artificial intelligence. For them, everything will be done with the help of this
“miracle or monster,” depending on how you look at it. But what do teeth have to do with
“Generation Beta”? Obviously, the very near future will see many jobs, which today are designed by an operator with a mouse, inexorably replaced by AI. But I don’t want to delve into this topic here; if anything, I’ll return to it in a later article. Now is the time to dive headfirst into a new
criterion of artificial teeth for removable dentures and understand the concept of “Generation Beta” for this
sector of our profession and what’s brewing. Let’s ask ourselves a few questions right away: was there really a need
for more rows of commercial teeth, given the vast variety of this product available?
We’ll find the answer easily by following the reasoning and asking ourselves a few additional questions
that perhaps we’ve never asked ourselves! We live in a digital, numerically controlled era: can teeth from splints or natural mouths really be transferred to editing software with a simple scan?
For me, the answer is no! Without abstraction and a preliminary mathematical model, we remain
still with an object as an end in itself and lose the possibility of large-scale use.

Let’s continue with the questions: were the splint teeth we’ve always known constructed based
on serious research from the mathematical-geometric analysis of normal human teeth, even inside them?
For me, the answer is still no! We see so much imagination and old beliefs, more commercial than scientific, to which must be added those inherent in the “fanatic” sector of belonging to a school or
a religious sect, devoid of any objective evidence and which by its very nature nullifies reasoning.
Another question: do the tooth shapes we see every day, primarily dedicated to removable prosthetics,
take into account the mathematics and repetitive geometries of nature, to properly grind and move
food and the resulting bolus? Here I am even more peremptory and say: absolutely not!
And again: is it logical to alter the functional, human, and normal shape of teeth, in favor of TMJ data or in the name of an original occlusal concept that does not exist in nature? Here too, I’m not being self-evident! Instead, all practitioners, or most of them, have always done this, even in fixed prosthetics, to be honest!
Last but not least: were the teeth known and constructed so far, both in fixed and removable prosthetics,
designed more for contact with each other or for contact with food?
I could go on and on about the absurdities and contradictions of a global dental system that
persists in not seriously observing the functional shape of teeth with measuring instruments. It has even gone so far as
to remove the cusps and the entire repetitive fluid-dynamic system, designed by nature, in
older and weaker patients, as if it were logical that those with less muscular strength should be given a
blunt knife to slice a ham. Patients are forced to improvise as ruminants to try
to chop the salad, ending up flattening everything and allowing their teeth to “cannibalize” each other in a
vain attempt to prevent swallowing unchewed food and leave the stomach to perform tasks that aren’t its own. This level of absurdity is on par with those beliefs bordering on “fake” that women
have smaller and rounder teeth, as if by looking at a plaster model, one could, with the current state of knowledge, determine a person’s sex. Even worse is the choice of oval teeth on an oval face,
etc., as if teeth didn’t have their own genetic blueprint, totally separate from that of the cranial bones,
and there wasn’t a scientific basis for the psychology of form, an individual personality, etc.
But let’s get to the point: AFG, in an all-Italian collaboration with Ruthinium, has developed an
innovative concept of removable denture teeth based on natural human teeth, generated first in numerical
abstraction (total and not just peripheral) and then physically, rather than the other way around: we can define them
as the first “Beta Generation” teeth, meaning they were already numerically controlled for computerized
management and not migrated to the digital realm! What was needed was a tooth with a new concept that incorporated
all thirty years of knowledge of the underlying numbers and geometries of the natural tooth, which AFG (Anatomic
Functional Geometry) has studied, classified, codified, and disseminated in 13 languages, obtaining initial
recognition from institutions, international universities, dental technology schools, and
from countless students over the past 25 years. All this, combined with Ruthinium’s sixty years of experience in
the production of materials and teeth for removable dentures and the contribution of new and modern professionals in the fields of design, assembly, and digital mechanics software, has led
to an innovative logic that follows the statistics of nature and the manufacturing processes of today and tomorrow.
To be “Generation Beta,” the artificial splint tooth must exist first as a formula
and then physically. Algorithms with the concept of average teeth must be incorporated into the
operational protocols from the outset, to avoid too many surprises during the individual or group assembly
phases in the dedicated software. While these can change the spaces, it’s not guaranteed that everything will be correct if it’s not designed in advance. Just a few tenths of an error can cause the relationships and stability to be lost, forcing
the operator to make excessive adjustments and distort the underlying geometry. This will allow you to experience prosthetics that
when placed together in occlusion, have a stability similar to that found in plaster models
of natural mouths. The patient will be able to grind food with the prosthetics, as they did in the past with their own teeth, without difficulty in the fluid-dynamic movement of the bolus, with easy recapture of the cheeks and tongue without strange movements as is often seen in older people and adults. Obviously, the position and teeth
in dentures and their relationship with masticatory forces must follow the rules that complete denture schools have always taught us. This stems from observations and data analysis of hundreds of
human mouths and scans of them, which have highlighted the presence of numerous constants in the dimensional and directional relationships
external and internal to each individual tooth. This has allowed us to identify repeatable and predictable patterns
and models, as never before, with margins of error expressed
within five tenths of a millimeter at most. In fact, we reason exactly like haute couture, as in
figurative painting or sculpture, in archaeology, etc., to generate proportions and natural harmony. Starting
from these observations, an algorithm capable of modifying a set of teeth based
on a reference model called M0 was designed. This algorithm uses identified constants to adapt
the dental configuration consistently with the observed proportions. To validate the results and
represent the variations within the sample, the data is analyzed within a Gaussian curve. This
highlights the distribution of values ​​around the mean and the potential for significant deviations.
This should also make it clear that scanning a natural mouth is no longer enough.
It would still be an object in itself, lacking universality and margins
for adaptation, and with the risk of losing the encoding of relationships.
With this numerically controlled method based on clear reference points, we have new perspectives
for customizing dental models, ensuring precision and reliability.
AFG is the basis for all this, with its unique way of representing teeth through symbols
understandable to everyone, even those who, as patients, have only completed third grade. Our mathematical
calculations should not be shocking, because what the patient receives are ultimately small numbers
with commas and simple geometric shapes that everyone studied in elementary school. A serious, simple tooth,
without unnecessary frills, more suited to social media than to patients. A tooth that not only respects the measurements, angles,
and directions of normal human dentition, but also makes itself “speakable” on an extraclinical level. A
tooth that impacts the professional authority of the doctor and dental technician, while they are intent on
getting their work accepted and paid better, avoiding incomprehensible language and terminology.
The first 92-year-old patient to receive a prosthesis made with “Acry Nature AFG” already uttered
these words (recorded) while chewing an apple: “I’m chewing with a tooth I’ve never been
lucky enough to have!” A tooth that makes people happy around a table, not when it relieves stress, for which there are other remedies and aids. The patient would never want a prosthesis, but they would like their teeth back!
Dentists and dental technicians talk too often about prostheses, now with AFG they can talk about what
patients really care about: their teeth.

Source: INFOMEDIX ITALIAN DENTISTRY 2 2025