Abstract: An example method comprises: performing a first intraoral scan of an oral cavity, the oral cavity including a dentition of a patient; identifying a first digital representation of dental anatomy associated with the dentition of the patient; causing the first digital representation of dental anatomy to be stored at an external storage location; appending, to a current data block of a main blockchain, a reference to a first data block of an auxiliary blockchain; appending, to the first data block of the auxiliary blockchain, an identifier of the external storage location; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a first data item of the first digital representation of dental anatomy; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a reference to a preceding data block of the main blockchain; and broadcasting the current data block of the main blockchain to a plurality of blockchain nodes.

Abstract: An example method of managing medical records using multi-dimensional cryptographically-secured datastores comprises: storing digital representations of dental anatomy utilizing a two-dimensional blockchain structure includes: causing, by a computer system, a digital representation of dental anatomy to be stored at an external storage location; appending, to a first data block of an auxiliary blockchain, an identifier of the external storage location; appending, to a current data block of a main blockchain, a reference to a first data block of the auxiliary blockchain; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a data item of the digital representation of dental anatomy; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a reference to a preceding data block of the main blockchain; and broadcasting the current data block of the main blockchain to a plurality of blockchain nodes.

Abstract: An example method comprises: performing a first intraoral scan of an oral cavity, the oral cavity including a dentition of a patient; identifying a first digital representation of dental anatomy associated with the dentition of the patient; causing the first digital representation of dental anatomy to be stored at an external storage location; appending, to a current data block of a main blockchain, a reference to a first data block of an auxiliary blockchain; appending, to the first data block of the auxiliary blockchain, an identifier of the external storage location; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a first data item of the first digital representation of dental anatomy; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a reference to a preceding data block of the main blockchain; and broadcasting the current data block of the main blockchain to a plurality of blockchain nodes.

Abstract: An example method of managing medical records using multi-dimensional cryptographically-secured datastores comprises: storing digital representations of dental anatomy utilizing a two-dimensional blockchain structure includes: causing, by a computer system, a digital representation of dental anatomy to be stored at an external storage location; appending, to a first data block of an auxiliary blockchain, an identifier of the external storage location; appending, to a current data block of a main blockchain, a reference to a first data block of the auxiliary blockchain; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a data item of the digital representation of dental anatomy; appending, to the current data block of the main blockchain, a reference to a preceding data block of the main blockchain; and broadcasting the current data block of the main blockchain to a plurality of blockchain nodes.