1542results about "Dental prosthetics" patented technology

Dental instruments, assemblies, and components for a dental instrument are described with a two-piece tip that includes a flexible tip end and a stiff shank. Various methods of assembly are described for securing the flexible tip end to the shank including utilizing a slot in the shank and one or more pins inserted through the tip and shank, a securing material, and forming the shank with a distal portion coupled to a portion of the flexible tip end.

The invention discloses a failure restoration retreatment decision-making method based on dynamic occlusion analysis, and the method comprises the steps: constructing a four-dimensional virtual biomechanical model which comprises a patient anatomical structure and a dynamic function through multi-modal data fusion, and enabling the model to be embedded into a real three-dimensional mandibular movement track of a patient to simulate functional movement, thereby breaking through a static analysis blind area, and achieving the real three-dimensional mandibular movement of the patient. The missed diagnosis rate of dynamic interference is reduced; based on quantitative indexes and thresholds such as occlusal contact displacement, occlusal contact distribution symmetry and adjustment quantity of the maximum tooth tip staggering position and the median relation position, experience judgment of doctors is replaced, objectivity, repeatability and accuracy of failure repair and retreatment decision are improved, and excessive or insufficient adjustment is avoided; the treatment effect rehearsal is realized through virtual presetting, the irreversible operation risk is avoided, and the number of times of re-visit and the trial and error cost of a patient are reduced; and meanwhile, the four-dimensional virtual model can be connected with transition and design and manufacturing of a final restoration, so that the accuracy, safety and efficiency of retreatment of a failed restoration are improved.

Various implementations of implants and implant surfaces for clinical rehabilitation or enhancement of a patient, related systems, and computer programs and methods for the design and manufacturing of implants are disclosed. A macroscale shape, a microscale surface texture, and a nanoscale surface topography are overlaid to increase, condition, and thereby functionalize an implant surface. A thin-film coating and / or laser interferometry is utilized to overlay on a machined implant substrate a nanoscale surface topography. Manufacturing the macroscale shape and the microscale texture may be performed with an ultrashort pulsed laser system in separate process steps. The design of a dental implant may be assisted by a self-learning computer program product, based on trained coupled shape models including, for example, mesh-based statistical shape and orientation models.

The present invention discloses a method, device, storage medium, and medical system for generating a restoration dental model. Among them, the method comprises: obtaining the restoration type of the tooth to be restored, wherein the restoration type includes at least one of the following: tooth implant type, crown restoration type, and inlay restoration type; determining the key points of the tooth to be restored based on the restoration type, where the key points of the tooth to be restored are used to represent the characteristics of the tooth to be restored; determining the restoration dental model based on the restoration type and the key points of the tooth to be restored. The present invention solves the technical problem of low efficiency of making restoration dental models artificially in related technologies.

The invention relates to the technical field of digital data processing, in particular to a finite element analysis method and system for a full-mouth edentulous movable denture, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a CT image of the oral cavity of a patient, constructing a three-dimensional finite element model through a finite element analysis method, and carrying out the grid division of the three-dimensional finite element model, obtaining a unit size and a maximum deviation coefficient of each grid, and a pressure trend vector of each grid in each dynamic occlusion process; determining the shape complex weight of each grid; determining a pressure difference degree, a stress sensitivity degree, a stress dispersion degree and a structure disorder characteristic value of each grid; obtaining each defect grid; calculating the number of expanded neighborhood layers of each defect grid; and refining the grids, and optimizing the false tooth according to a simulation result of occlusion simulation of the three-dimensional finite element model. According to the method, local stress changes can be accurately captured, the accuracy of finite element analysis on false tooth stress analysis is improved, and the pain feeling of a patient during occlusion is reduced.

Various implementations of removable dental appliances, including multi-unit veneers to improve the aesthetics and function of a smile of a dental customer, related systems, and computer programs and methods for the design and manufacturing of removable dental appliances are disclosed. For example, surface tension and capillary action between the patient's or customer's teeth, saliva and surfaces of the removable dental appliance are utilized to substantially hold the appliance in place, once inserted. For example, a clip-on fit involving exclusively vestibular-facing undercuts between the patient's or customer's teeth are utilized to substantially hold the appliance in place, once inserted. The appliance is manufactured by additive or subtractive manufacturing technologies and may gain stability from a resin-based coating.

Various implementations of implants and implant surfaces for clinical rehabilitation or enhancement of a patient, related systems, and computer programs and methods for the design and manufacturing of implants are disclosed. A macroscale shape, a microscale surface texture, and a nanoscale surface topography are overlaid to increase, condition, and thereby functionalize an implant surface. A thin-film coating and / or laser interferometry is utilized to overlay on a machined implant substrate a nanoscale surface topography. Manufacturing the macroscale shape and the microscale texture may be performed with an ultrashort pulsed laser system in separate process steps. The design of a dental implant may be assisted by a self-learning computer program product, based on trained coupled shape models including, for example, mesh-based statistical shape and orientation models.

Methods for additive manufacturing of polymer and metal dental appliances are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a digital representation of a dental appliance including a first portion to be formed from a polymeric material and a second portion to be formed from a metallic material. The method can include fabricating the dental appliance using an additive manufacturing process. The additive manufacturing process can include depositing a first composition including a precursor of the polymeric material at the first portion of the dental appliance, and depositing a second composition including a plurality of metal particles at the second portion of the dental appliance.

Various implementations of implants and implant surfaces for clinical rehabilitation or enhancement of a patient, related systems, and computer programs and methods for the design and manufacturing of implants are disclosed. A macroscale shape, a microscale surface texture, and a nanoscale surface topography are overlaid to increase, condition, and thereby functionalize an implant surface. A thin-film coating and / or laser interferometry is utilized to overlay on a machined implant substrate a nanoscale surface topography. Manufacturing the macroscale shape and the microscale texture may be performed with an ultrashort pulsed laser system in separate process steps. The design of a dental implant may be assisted by a self-learning computer program product, based on trained coupled shape models including, for example, mesh-based statistical shape and orientation models.

Various implementations of implants and implant surfaces for clinical rehabilitation or enhancement of a patient, related systems, and computer programs and methods for the design and manufacturing of implants are disclosed. A macroscale shape, a microscale surface texture, and a nanoscale surface topography are overlaid to increase, condition, and thereby functionalize an implant surface. A thin-film coating and / or laser interferometry is utilized to overlay on a machined implant substrate a nanoscale surface topography. Manufacturing the macroscale shape and the microscale texture may be performed with an ultrashort pulsed laser system in separate process steps. The design of a dental implant may be assisted by a self-learning computer program product, based on trained coupled shape models including, for example, mesh-based statistical shape and orientation models.

The present invention is related to a dental device (1) intended to cover at least part of a teeth (2) and / or at least part of gums (3) or other surfaces of a mouth for repositioning or retaining said teeth (2) and optionally said gums (3) or other surfaces of the mouth, said dental device (1) comprising a channel (7) provided in a main body (31; 40, 42) of the dental device (1) and having at least one opening (4, 5) to the exterior. The present invention is also related to a method of manufacturing said dental device (1) by additive manufacturing and to methods for circulating a substance and / or saliva and oxygen through the dental device (1) in view of releasing said substance and / or saliva and oxygen inside the mouth.

The apparatus (1000) includes a housing (110), a chamber (120) disposed in the housing, at least two light emitting diodes (LEDs) (130) disposed within the housing (110), and a user interface (140) disposed on an exterior (112) of the housing. The chamber (120) is adaptable to each of an open, closed, and hermetically sealed configuration. The chamber (120) includes a material transparent to actinic radiation and light from the LEDs (130) enters the chamber from more than one direction. The user interface (140) includes a display (142) and program switches (144) configured to adjust at least three operational parameters of the apparatus. The apparatus (1000) further includes a vacuum pump (150) operatively coupled to the chamber (120). The system includes the apparatus (1000) and an article (180). An article includes layers of at least one photopolymerized crosslinked composition and a low extractable component content. A method of post-curing an article includes obtaining an article (180), placing the article in an apparatus (1000), inputting a post-cure program or accessing a saved post-cure program through the user interface (140), and running the post-cure program. The post-cure program includes light intensity provided by a light source (130) and length of time of light provided by the light source (130), plus a delay time between initiation of light provided by the light source (130) and initiation of vacuum pulled by the vacuum pump (150) and / or a delay time between initiation of vacuum pulled on an interior of the chamber (120) by the vacuum pump (150) and initiation of light provided by the light source (130).

The invention discloses an intelligent design method and system for ultra-thin ceramic false teeth. The intelligent design method comprises the following steps: constructing a two-dimensional template library and a three-dimensional template library, and respectively registering two-dimensional and three-dimensional templates with a three-dimensional dental model of a patient by using a template registration algorithm; after the registration of the three-dimensional template and the three-dimensional dental model of the patient is completed, a veneering three-dimensional model is obtained through Boolean subtraction; calculating the thickness of a marked anatomical region of the veneering three-dimensional model by adopting an SDF (Software Development Function), and if the thicknesses of some regions do not meet clinical requirements, performing thickening and smoothing operation on the veneering three-dimensional model according to a thickness threshold value determined by material physical characteristics and aesthetic veneering types corresponding to the regions; a mark of an inner surface bonding force enhancing area is arranged on a veneering three-dimensional model meeting clinical requirements, and according to the precision required by the veneering three-dimensional model, a method of direct three-dimensional modeling presentation or process fine adjustment is selected, so that manufacturing of a micro-area structure of the marked area is achieved. The veneering three-dimensional model designed by the invention can improve the repair quality and the comfort of a patient.

The invention relates to the technical field of three-dimensional reconstruction, and provides a three-dimensional reconstruction method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a first image frame set of an oral cavity in a first state, and the oral cavity in the first state represents that at least one actual scanning rod is installed in the oral cavity; identifying a scanning rod area of each image frame in the first image frame set; and based on the feature information in the scanning rod region, splicing the plurality of image frames in the first image frame set, and reconstructing to obtain target three-dimensional data corresponding to an actual scanning rod in the oral cavity. According to the method, splicing is carried out based on the rigid structure, the influence of anatomical structures (such as gingiva, lip and tongue) in the image frame on the splicing precision can be reduced, and the overall precision of three-dimensional reconstruction can be improved.

An aspect includes examining a dental defect in an oral cavity, performing a minimally invasive procedure to detect or remove a portion of the dental defect, scanning the oral cavity including a residual tooth substance remaining after the performing, to obtain an intraoral scan, computing one or more parameters of the dental defect or residual tooth substance, and generating a number of treatment plans for one or more restoration materials based on a triangulation of the dental defect and an enforcement of constraints of the one or more restoration materials. Each treatment plan includes a geometry of a restoration option, and an optimal restoration option is selected from the plurality of treatment plans.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dental prosthetic assembly. The dental prosthetic assembly comprises a first and a second element. The first element comprises a first connection portion with a reception configured to establish a mechanical connection between the first and the second element by receiving a protrusion of a second connection portion comprised by the second element.

Systems and methods are described for generating accurate predictions of the post-treatment anatomy of a patient. The methods involve receiving one or more oral care arguments that describe the desired output from a trained machine learning model. One or more noisy representations of the patient's face and / or post-treatment dentition can be used to train a denoising diffusion probabilistic model. In deployment, an initially noisy image can be denoised, with conditioning on latent representations of the patient's pre-treatment photo and the post- restoration dentition. The methods may generate a digital representation of the patient's post-treatment appearance. These systems and methods enable improved predictive accuracy and enable treatment planning for orthodontics and dental restorative treatments.

A method includes obtaining video data of a dental patient. The method further includes obtaining an indication of selection criteria in association with the video data. The selection criteria includes conditions related to a target dental treatment of the dental patient. The method further includes performing an analysis procedure on the video data. Performing the analysis procedure includes determining a first score for each frame of the video data based on the selection criteria. Performing the analysis procedure further includes determining that a frame satisfies a first threshold condition based on the first score. The method further includes providing the first frame as output of the analysis procedure.

Systems and techniques are described for determining at least one of a translational force or a rotational force applied by a dental appliance to a tooth or teeth of a patient. A system includes model teeth configured to represent a portion of a dental arch and receive a dental appliance, a post extending from a first end coupled to a respective tooth to a second end coupled to a base, at least one strain gauge integrally formed on a surface of the post between the first end and the second end, and processor communicatively coupled to the at least one strain gauge and configured to determine at least one of a translational force or a rotational force applied by the dental appliance to the respective tooth.

A custom tool for forming a dental restoration in a mouth of a patient includes a one-piece mold body providing for a customized fit with at least one tooth of the patient, the one-piece mold body including an occlusal portion forming an occlusal surface corresponding with an occlusal surface of the tooth, a mesial proximal portion forming a mesial proximal surface corresponding with a mesial proximal surface of the tooth, and a distal proximal portion forming a distal proximal surface corresponding with a distal proximal surface of the tooth. The mold body is configured to combine with the tooth of the patient to form a mold cavity encompassing missing tooth structure of the tooth. The occlusal portion, the mesial proximal portion, and the distal proximal portion are based on three-dimensional scan data of the mouth of the patient.

There is provided a method comprising: detecting and / or segmenting a dental-related anatomical structure of a subject from a dental 3D imaging model, wherein the dental-related anatomical structure includes a target for injection of anesthesia by a dental syringe, accessing sequential frames of an oral cavity of a subject captured by an image sensor during a dental session of the subject, presenting within a GUI, at least one fused frame depicting a merger of the sequential frames and the segmentation of the dental-related anatomical structure of the subject registered to the sequential frames, wherein the dental-related anatomical structure is depicted on the sequential frames at a location indicating the target for injection, and dynamically updating the location of the dental-related anatomical structure depicted on the sequential frames according to dynamic adaptation of a pose of the image sensor.

The utility model relates to the technical field of false tooth repairing, in particular to a false tooth repairing spot welding device which comprises a working box, a working table, a welding gun and a fixing mechanism, the fixing mechanism comprises an inclined seat, an inclined arm, an inclined motor, a rotating assembly and a fixing assembly, the fixing assembly comprises a rotating table and two clamping pieces, and each clamping piece comprises a hydraulic cylinder, a connecting block and a clamping block. When a false tooth is repaired, two hydraulic cylinders are started to eject two connecting blocks out, two clamping blocks are driven to get close, after the distance is proper, the false tooth is clamped on the two clamping blocks, an inclined motor is started to enable an inclined arm, a fixing assembly and the false tooth to rotate until the position of the false tooth is proper, and a welding gun is started to repair the false tooth. If the other side faces of the false tooth need to be repaired, the false tooth can be rotated through the rotating assembly, so that the false tooth is turned over, and the false tooth is clamped and fixed, so that the false tooth is prevented from shaking, and the conditions of insufficient welding and wrong welding are avoided, and the effect of improving the accuracy of the device is achieved.

The invention discloses a root canal isthmus 3D printing research model construction method and device, a medium and a product, and relates to the technical field of root canal isthmus printing.The method comprises the steps that root canal original data and prepared root canal data are obtained; the root canal original data are screened various typical form data containing root canal isthmus; obtaining expanded main root canal diameter data according to the prepared root canal data, extracting original tooth root three-dimensional surface data according to the root canal original data, and combining the original tooth root three-dimensional surface data with the expanded main root canal diameter data to obtain a root canal isthmus 3D printing research model. The root canal original data screened out in the application contain all possibilities of the root canal isthmus, and compared with a modular stacking mode in the prior art, a mode of carrying out layer-by-layer modeling by utilizing the root canal original data obtained by scanning in the application can more accurately simulate the shape and size of the real root canal isthmus.

Devices, methods, and systems for placing dental auxiliaries on teeth are provided. In some embodiments, for example, a dental auxiliary positioner for placing a dental auxiliary on a tooth includes: a registration element configured to receive a patient's tooth; and an auxiliary support coupled to the registration element and further coupled to an auxiliary, where the auxiliary support is configured to position the auxiliary against a surface of the tooth, and where the auxiliary support includes a frame extending at least partially around the auxiliary, one or more struts coupling the auxiliary to the frame, and a flexible bridge coupling the frame to the registration element, where the flexible bridge is configured to bend in one or more directions relative to the tooth to adjust the position of the auxiliary on the surface of the tooth.

The invention provides a data scanning method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium. The method comprises the steps that first scanning data of an oral cavity in a first state are obtained, the oral cavity in the first state refers to that at least one abutment is implanted into the oral cavity, and the first scanning data comprise initial abutment data and gingival data; second scanning data of the oral cavity in a second state are obtained, the oral cavity in the second state refers to that a corresponding scanning rod is installed on a base in the oral cavity, and the second scanning data comprise scanning rod data; determining a first conversion relation between scanning rod data and target base station data in the second scanning data; and processing the first scanning data and the second scanning data based on the initial base station data and the target base station data and the first conversion relation between the scanning rod data and the target base station data to obtain a target three-dimensional model. By means of the implant scanning method and device, the problems that the implant scanning process is complex, the scanning cost is high, and a user feels uncomfortable easily can be solved.

A photocurable composition, contains a (meth)acrylic monomer component, and photopolymerization initiator, in a case in which a rectangular sheet-like test piece A1 with a length of 40 mm, a width of 10 mm, and a thickness of 1.0 mm is produced by photomodeling under conditions in which the photocurable composition is irradiated with visible light having a wavelength of 405 nm at an irradiation dose of 11 mJ / cm2 to form a cured layer A1 with a thickness of 50 μm, the cured layer A1 is stacked in a thickness direction thereof to form a rectangular sheet-like modeling product A1 with a length of 40 mm, a width of 10 mm, and a thickness of 1.0 mm, and the modeling product A1 is irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 365 nm at an irradiation dose of 3 J / cm2 to produce the test piece A1.

Systems and methods for setting teeth final positions in a treatment plan include: receiving a first 3D representation of a dentition in an initial position, distributing one or more first teeth in the first 3D representation in a mesial-distal direction, modifying a position of one or more second teeth of the plurality of teeth along a maxillary-mandibular axis based on a determined cutting edge, shifting one or more third teeth of the plurality of teeth in the first 3D representation towards a determined arch curve, and generating a second 3D representation by moving one or more fourth teeth of the plurality of teeth to minimize interproximal contacts between the plurality of teeth along the arch curve.

A system and method for dental image file capture and manipulation for the purpose of dental, orthodontic, and periodontic tracking, diagnostics, and dental prosthetic and implant design. Augmented intelligence in dental file segmentation using descriptor matrixes with a common centroid or reference locus as a reference point describing related dental surface structures reduces the data size of dental image files such that dental images can be manipulated and compared to other dental files and can be used in machine learning and matching systems. This expedites the design and manufacture of dental prosthetics, appliances, and in dental monitoring and treatment.

The invention provides a novel implant surface treatment method and device, and the method comprises the following steps: carrying out sand blasting treatment on an implant by adopting TA4G medical titanium sand, and controlling the sand blasting parameters to be that the air pressure is 0.18-0.25 Mpa, the distance between a spray gun nozzle and the implant is 3-8 mm, the single sand blasting time is 5-13 seconds, and the sand blasting times is 2-5; then carrying out acid etching treatment on the implant subjected to sand blasting by using a mixed acid solution of sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, wherein the concentration of the hydrochloric acid is 18-36%, and the concentration of the sulfuric acid is 15-48%; and finally, cleaning the implant subjected to acid etching treatment. The particle size of TA4G medical titanium sand used in the sand blasting treatment is 40-80 meshes. The invention provides a novel sand blasting and acid etching surface treatment process, provides a better implant surface treatment solution, not only solves the problems in the prior art, but also brings about optimized surface structure, enhanced hydrophilicity and bone combination rate, reduced material pollution and stronger parameter controllability. Therefore, a better choice is provided for manufacturing and clinical application of the dental implant.