Yoosseph/dental-scope
Explore teeth, jaws, nerves, tissues, root canals, cross-sections and layered dental structures in 3D.
About the project
Open-source interactive 3D dental anatomy explorer: from the whole mouth down to enamel, dentin and root canals of a single tooth. An educational reference for dental students and educators.
Useful for
- Study a specific tooth by FDI, Universal or Palmer number
- Peel tooth and jaw layers using dissection and cross-section modes
- Find a structure by name, synonym or number and open its deep link
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 0 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 86 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #158.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy” — 115 points, 2 days ago.
- About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @kakao74 (302 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 86
- Today
- 0 · ≈ 24 by evening
- Forks
- 7
- Issues and pull requests
- 26
- Watchers
- 7
- Language
- TypeScript
- Created
- September 25, 2026
- Last push
- September 30, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Show HN: Dental Scope – Interactive 3D dental anatomy115 points, September 29, 2026
Spotted in
- October 1, 2026Top new repositories this week: #156
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