ISO/TR 15599:2002

In addition the digital code is intended to provide, as a result of built-in indexing functions:

• the identification and traceability of dental prostheses and materials, epidemiology and forensic dentistry, investment planning, teaching, research, industry, insurance systems, social services and regulatory authorities;
• the creation of performing databases for the field evaluation of materials, design and construction techniques of dental prostheses, and their effects, wanted or unwanted;
• the possibility of communication between the dental professions, dental industry and trade, on both qualitative and quantitative scales.