470results about "Dental prosthetics" patented technology

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.

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.

An apparatus for automatically modeling smile design may be configured to capture a first set of facial measurements via a camera system. Using said first set of facial measurements a structural feature model may be generated. Generation of a structural feature model may include generating an initial structural feature model using at least a first set of facial measurements; identifying a plurality of ideal measurements; determining a plurality of desired changes; and applying said desired changes to the structural feature model, generating a final structural feature model. Lastly, the final structural feature model may be displayed on a display device.

Embodiments relate to obtaining a virtual 3D representation of a patient's dentition, segmenting the virtual 3D representation to obtain first and second segmented tooth representations of neighboring teeth in the patient's dentition. The method can involve determining an initial tooth pose for the first segmented tooth representation using a geometric parameter of the first segmented tooth representation and a geometric parameter of the second segmented tooth representation. A normalized tooth representation of the first segmented tooth representation is obtained by transforming the first segmented tooth representation using the initial tooth pose for the first segmented tooth representation. The normalized tooth representation is then input into a trained neural network to output a correct tooth pose for the first segmented tooth representation.

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to providing data files associated with orthodontic appliances. In some embodiments, a system for providing data files associated with orthodontic appliances comprises a database, wherein the database stores the data files associated with the orthodontic appliances and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is communicatively coupled to the database, a user device, and a printer, wherein the control circuit is configured to receive, from the user device, an indication of a selected orthodontic device, retrieve, based on the indication of the selected orthodontic device from the database, one of the data files associated with the orthodontic appliances, wherein the one of the data files associated with the orthodontic appliances corresponds to the selected orthodontic appliance, and transmit, to the printer, the one of the data files associated with the orthodontic appliances.

The present invention relates to methods for curing polymeric dental appliances comprised of partially cured photopolymerizable components, especially for additively manufactured denture base and artificial tooth components utilized in the production of full and partial dental prostheses. In particular, the invention relates to methods of utilizing a curing apparatus having one or more controllable heating sources and one or more controllable LED light sources to achieve specific preheating and light curing conditions for more effectively converting partially cured photopolymerizable components from a partially cured state to a final cured state.

The present disclosure provides methods and system for generating perspective data between two or more oral representations, comprising: presenting a first oral representation and a second oral representation on a digital display, wherein the second oral representation is configured to be manipulated by a user via a user input device; and generating perspective data between the manipulated second oral representation and the first oral representation, wherein the second oral representation is overlaid on the first oral representation such that the first representation is still visible on the digital display.

In some implementations, one or more processors may receive three-dimensional (3D) scan data of a supragingival tooth structure of a patient. The one or more processors may design a dental restoration tool based on the 3D scan data of the supragingival tooth structure of the patient. The dental restoration tool may include a one-piece matrix including a facial matrix portion, a lingual matrix portion, and an integral hinge portion pivotably coupling, about an occlusal-gingival- extending axis, the facial matrix portion to the lingual matrix portion. The one-piece matrix may be configured to close, via the integral hinge portion, to form a mold cavity that encompasses one or more teeth of the patient during a dental restoration process.

A method is provided for assessing and categorizing temporomandibular disorder (TMD). In some cases, the method can include receiving data representing a potential for TMD of a patient. The method can include processing the data to identify an indicator of the TMD. The method can include identifying a treatment recommendation based on the indicator of the TMD. The method can include providing the treatment recommendation for display on a user device.

A method for determining an internal structure of a dental prosthesis base having at least one blood vessel simulation. The method includes obtaining outer shell data which describe an outer shell of the dental prosthesis base. The method includes obtaining blood vessel data which describe the at least one blood vessel simulation. The method includes combining the outer shell data and the blood vessel data to form internal structure data, wherein the internal structure data describe an arrangement of the at least one blood vessel simulation within the outer shell of the dental prosthesis base. A method for the production of a dental prosthesis base is included. A dental prosthesis base with an outer shell and an internal structure is included, using the method herein. A data-processing device, a computer program and a computer-readable medium are also presented.

A dental machining system for manufacturing a dental restoration, including: a dental tool machine which includes: a dental blank holder for holding one or more dental blanks relatively movable with respect to one or more dental tools; one or more driving units each for movably holding at least one dental tool for machining the dental blanks; a determination unit for determining the type of each dental blank; an adjustment device for allowing the user to adjust the machining time, a level of quality of the dental restoration, and a level of security of the dental restoration and dental tool against machining damage. The system further includes a control unit which executes a trained artificial intelligence algorithm adapted to generate process parameters for the machining.

The working tooth to be treated is prepared in the patient's mouth. A guide device is fastened onto the tooth to fix its position. A cutting device inserted into the guide device is moved, so that the flange of the cutting device slides along a slot extending within the guide device and makes contact with it, and the tool of the cutting device removes a portion of the working tooth, thereby forming the prepared surface of the working tooth. The tool includes a portion with a curved profile in the plane containing the axis of the tool, so that the working tooth is rounded by its tool portion. The cutting device and guide device are removed from the patient's mouth. A dental alignment device is fastened onto multiple teeth, including the working tooth, so that the prepared surface and the dental alignment device face each other.

This invention relates to the field of implant bridging technology, specifically to a bridging-type implant superstructure restoration. It includes a support layer structure, which is fixed to the jawbone by a plurality of implant screws rotatably mounted below it. A plurality of crowns are mounted above the support layer structure, with the support layer structure positioned between the crowns and the jawbone. The support layer structure absorbs part of the occlusal impact force generated by the crowns from top to bottom. Fixing components are disposed inside the crowns, securing them above the support layer structure. The fixing components are coaxially arranged with the implant screws. The support layer structure, through the fixing components, restricts the installation orientation of the crowns, ensuring that the crown axis remains parallel to the jawbone surface. The lower and upper clamps of this invention are fixedly connected by two staggered support rods. When the lower and upper clamps approach each other, they compress the two support rods, causing lateral deformation and absorbing the occlusal impact force.

The present invention relates to a pre-sintered multi-layered dental mill blank comprising a top layer, a bottom layer, and at least one intermediate layer. The pre-sintered multi-layered dental mill blank or a part prepared thereof has one or more desirable properties when being fully sintered by a speed sintering process. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing a dental restoration using the pre-sintered multi-layered dental mill blank as well as to a dental restoration as such. The present invention further relates to a process for sintering a dental restoration precursor.

The present application relates to the field of dental prosthesis manufacturing, and particularly relates to a 3D printing device and method for customized design of dental prosthesis. The device comprises a printing box, a 3D printing device, a cleaning assembly, a printing base, a donor membrane assembly, an accumulator, a deposition assembly and a prosthesis assembly assembly. The 3D printing device is arranged on the top of the printing chamber; the cleaning assembly is arranged on one side of the 3D printing device; the printing base is arranged at the bottom of the printing chamber and is configured to be reversibly movable; the donor membrane assembly is arranged on the other side of the cleaning assembly; the deposition assembly is arranged in the ring-shaped structure of the membrane; and the prosthesis assembly assembly is arranged through the installation chamber. The present application solves the industry problem of easy collapse of the thin-walled metal base of the dental prosthesis by means of integrated design and laser deposition innovative process, while realizing full-process automatic production, significantly improving efficiency and precision.

Bone anchor for an upper or lower jaw and a corresponding drilling template for making drill holes in the jaw. The drilling template contains an anchor plate and a connecting element whose shape and dimensions are substantially the same as those of the anchor plate and the connecting element of the bone anchor. A drill guide is provided adjacent to recesses on the drilling template that allows a drill to be appropriately guided in order to make drill holes in the jaw.

A method for treating the surface of a dental implant to impart surface roughness is disclosed. The method for treating the surface of a dental implant according to the present invention includes a first surface treatment step of forming grooves in a regular pattern on the entire or part of the implant surface using a laser, and a second surface treatment step of imparting roughness to the grooves and their surroundings through acid etching. The first surface treatment step may include a first laser treatment step of processing a plurality of first grooves that are continuous in a first direction and spaced apart in a second direction, and a second laser treatment step of processing a plurality of second grooves that are continuous in the second direction and spaced apart in the first direction, forming craters at each intersection between the first and second grooves.

Dental restoration technologies include dental prosthesis components such as implants, abutments, crowns, and the like that are mapped to a patient's mouth prior to and during installation. Fabricating at least a portion of one or more components of the dental prosthesis using a fully calibrated and characterized fabricator can reduce sources of error that affect the success of fabrication and installation processes. The components of the dental prosthesis are represented by library files that are tailored to reflect particular characteristics of the components of the prosthesis to be fabricated, the fabricator, the material used during fabrication, and / or the environment surrounding the fabricator. The library files may be determined based on an acquired scan of the patient and / or based on inputs received from a user during the design process. The library files may be generated using virtual modeling techniques, and / or based on a component design that falls within pre-determined parameters.

Provided herein are curable compositions for use in a high temperature lithography-based photopolymerization process, a method of producing crosslinked polymers using said curable compositions, crosslinked polymers thus produced, and orthodontic appliances comprising the crosslinked polymers.

Computer system (100) and computer-implemented method are provided for automated generation of manufacturing-machine control data (291) for the manufacturing of an orthodontic appliance (280) for a patient (2). Based on three-dimensional representations (210) of the patient's oral anatomy and an appliance type (211) of the orthodontic appliance, the system generates a control structure (111) comprising a mesh providing an initial representation (111pi) of an aimed appliance geometry, and subdivision manifold-related shape attribute information (Ills) with a subdivision scheme, implicit manifold-related shape attribute information (111i) with a scalar field, and information for evaluating a respective position of the respective vertex. Executing a subdivision according to the subdivision scheme generates a modified control structure (111m). For added vertices, respective shape attribute information is evaluated to obtain the position of the respective vertices. Once a final mesh is obtained, it is transformed into manufacturing-machine control data for the manufacturing of the orthodontic appliance, and provided to corresponding manufacturing means (290).

The techniques described herein relate to additively manufactured orthodontic appliances. An example custom metal orthodontic bracket includes a body, a plurality of tie-wings, and a base. The base includes a base surface that is contoured to a shape of a tooth of a patient to which the custom metal orthodontic bracket is to be bonded, and a plurality of retentive structures, wherein at least one of a portion of the base is not polished or only partially polished, or a portion of at least one of the plurality of retentive structures is not polished or only partially polished. An example method for manufacturing a custom orthodontic bracket includes measuring dentition data of a patient, constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of at least one tooth of the patient, designing a 3D model of the bracket, preparing feedstock, building the bracket, removing the feedstock, hardening the bracket, and polishing the bracket.

A method of treating a surface of a dental implant to provide roughness to the surface is disclosed. The dental implant surface treatment method according to the present invention may comprise: a first surface treatment step of forming grooves in a regular pattern on an entirety or a part of the implant surface by using a laser; and a second surface treatment step of providing roughness to the grooves and the peripheries of the grooves through acid etching. The first surface treatment step may include: a primary laser processing process of processing a plurality of first grooves that are continuous in a first direction and spaced apart in a second direction; and a secondary laser processing process of processing a plurality of second grooves that are continuous in the second direction and spaced apart in the first direction to form a crater at each intersection of the first groove and the second groove.

An assembly comprising an abutment and gingival healing cuff. The gingival healing cuff fits over the abutment, wherein the cuff includes internal surfaces (e.g., at least one flat face, and at least one curved face) corresponding to the external surfaces of the abutment, so as to mate with one another. The gingival healing cuff can further include a rectangular box or other timing alignment structure positioned apical to a buccal alignment body, which serves as a buccal alignment marker once the buccal alignment body is removed, and which can aid in helping the practitioner know where the implant platform and abutment platform are located (even when hidden). Flowable composite, e.g., of a different color, can be placed into the rectangular box or other timing alignment structure to aid in identification of the buccal surface of the cuff and proper rotational alignment ("timing") of the abutment with the implant.

The application relates to the technical field of denture welding processing, in particular to a flexible support fastening component for denture root part in denture welding processing, which comprises a support table, an arc-shaped groove for loading a denture root part component is arranged on the inner side of the support table, a support assembly is arranged below the support table, and a flexible support fastener for fixing the denture root part component is arranged above the support table. The flexible support fastener comprises a support seat, a sliding seat is slidably arranged in the support seat, a positioning shaft with a conical top is detachably arranged on the top side of the sliding seat, and a return spring is fixed to one side of the sliding seat. The flexible support fastening component for the denture root part in the denture welding processing can pull the end part of the e-bar, effectively eliminates welding residual stress, prevents post-welding deformation and delayed fracture, the pulling force can effectively eliminate the internal stress of the e-bar welding position caused by high welding temperature, deformation and cracking of the e-bar caused by stress concentration are avoided, and the structural stability of the e-bar after welding is improved.

To provide a dental prosthesis apparatus in which positions and directions of components are determined only by combining the components without using a model by improving a shape of a combined portion of the components in order to solve such a problem that a partial plate denture has not been able to get out of a conventional method that uses the model.SOLUTION: A dental prosthesis apparatus 20 includes at least as components artificial tooth parts 21-26, denture base parts 30-33 and a various part 40. At least three contact lines that are in parallel to each other are formed with contact of two components when at least the two components of the components are combined. The two components have only a translation freedom degree in a direction of the contact lines.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

A mold for a dental appliance includes a dental arch portion and a beam. The dental arch portion is associated with teeth of a user. The dental arch portion includes a first distal portion, a second distal portion, and an incisor portion disposed between the first distal portion and the second distal portion. The beam extends from the first distal portion to the second distal portion. The beam includes a label portion disposed between the first distal portion and the second distal portion. The label portion forms a label for identification of the mold.

The invention provides a digital false tooth processing system and method, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a plurality of local point cloud views of the surface of a target false tooth processing part, carrying out the point cloud classification based on surface curvature features, and obtaining a feature point cloud set of a complex occlusal surface and a non-feature point cloud set of a flat axial surface; performing multi-view registration of adaptive geometric characteristics on the feature point cloud set and the non-feature point cloud set to obtain a complete three-dimensional point cloud of the target false tooth machined part; performing fine registration on the complete three-dimensional point cloud and the three-dimensional point cloud of the target false tooth design model based on the point cloud overlapping rate to obtain a registration residual error between corresponding point pairs of the target false tooth processing part and the target false tooth design model; and performing normalization and color mapping on all the registration residuals to generate an error thermodynamic diagram of the machining precision of the target false tooth machined part. By adopting the scheme of the invention, high-efficiency, high-precision and result-visualized automatic processing error detection can be carried out on the false tooth processing part with complex mixed geometric characteristics.

The invention discloses a personalized complete denture precise manufacturing method based on a multi-modal digital technology, and relates to the technical field of oral restoration engineering and digital medical treatment. According to the method, firstly, three-modal data acquisition of oral soft tissue, facial aesthetics and alveolar bone anatomy is completed through an intraoral scanner, surface scanning equipment and CBCT; performing precise registration through an ICP algorithm to generate an integrated model; a virtual jaw frame and intelligent tooth arrangement software are combined to complete personalized design; for special cases, a transition / temporary denture and a biocompatibility tissue regulator are adopted to realize dynamic adaptation; and finally, completing false tooth manufacturing and verification through 3D printing or five-axis cutting. The method solves the problems that a traditional method is low in precision, weak in special case treatment and the like, achieves anatomy-function-aesthetics synergistic repair of the false tooth, and has the advantages of being high in adaptation degree, short in period and less in revival.