202 results about "Dentition" patented technology

The invention belongs to the technical field of three-dimensional point cloud processing, and particularly discloses an automatic tooth segmentation method and system for oral cavity scanning point clouds, and the method comprises the following steps: collecting and preprocessing dentition three-dimensional point clouds, extracting point cloud features containing coordinates and normal directions, and constructing a neighborhood structure; setting a first-stage multi-branch network, and performing tooth and gingiva coarse segmentation and instance initial clustering on the point cloud; setting a second-stage semantic refinement network, and carrying out local cutting on the original point cloud; setting a boundary detection and boundary offset network to enhance a tooth contact area, and refining a boundary instance by clustering to obtain a boundary enhanced instance tag; and performing label fusion, and propagating the fused label to the original high-resolution point cloud through a nearest neighbor algorithm to obtain a final semantic label and a final instance label. By adopting the technical scheme, high-precision instance-level segmentation of the complete dentition point cloud is realized through semantic segmentation, boundary detection and clustering cooperative work based on a biased field.

The invention discloses a digital stable jaw pad designing and manufacturing method, and relates to the technical field of oral rehabilitation and digital medical technology.The digital stable jaw pad manufacturing method comprises the following steps that a, three-dimensional point cloud data of oral dentition and mucosa of a patient is obtained through a three-dimensional scanner; b) determining a stable jaw position coordinate model by using an optical motion capture system; c) designing a jaw pad three-dimensional entity model with an anterior tooth area, a posterior tooth area and an edge structure based on the three-dimensional point cloud data and the stable jaw coordinate model; and d) manufacturing the jaw pad through 3D printing equipment, wherein the 3D printing equipment is formed by adopting a polyether-ether-ketone material. By integrating digital acquisition, design and manufacturing technologies, the pain point of a traditional method is solved, and personalized, high-precision and rapid manufacturing of the stable jaw pad is realized.

Provided are a method for generating an orthodontic design scheme, an electronic device, and a storage medium, for improving the success rate of automatically generating orthodontic design schemes. The method comprises: an electronic device acquiring dentition information of a patient, such as initial position information and target position information (step 101); generating a first orthodontic design scheme on the basis of the dentition information and a preset scheme generation process, wherein the first orthodontic design scheme comprises procedures of N orthodontic steps (step 102); traversing the procedure of each orthodontic step, and recording position information corresponding to a tooth marked with a key position node in the procedure of a first orthodontic step (step 103); and adjusting the position of the tooth marked with the key position node in the procedure of the first orthodontic step according to the position information corresponding to the tooth marked with the key position node in the procedure of the first orthodontic step and orthodontic constraints, to give a second orthodontic design scheme (step 104). Thereby, the generation efficiency and success rate of automatically generating an orthodontic design scheme can be improved.

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.

The invention provides a condyle positioning device and a lower jaw fixator with the condyle positioning device.The condyle positioning device comprises a condyle positioning component, a tooth retention guide plate and a dividing structure formed between the condyle positioning component and the tooth retention guide plate. Wherein the tooth retention guide plate and the condyle positioning component are of an integrated structure and can be separated along the segmentation structure, the condyle positioning component is suitable for being fixed to the front edge of the ramus of the mandible of a patient, and the tooth retention guide plate is manufactured based on the tooth form of the mandible part of the patient and fixed to the corresponding dentition. The condyle positioning component is connected with the lower jaw fixator through a mortise and tenon joint structure so as to position the specific position of the condyle of the patient after the lower jaw operation.

Methods and kits of materials and supplies for restoring teeth by an injection molding process and / or mold overlays in situ in a patient's mouth so as to correct the imperfect teeth of the patient's dentition. The imperfect teeth are corrected by applying restoration materials using a mold of a corrected model of the patients dentition placed over the imperfect teeth. Adjacent teeth may be covered with a polymer release material prior to injection molding of teeth to be corrected, such that the teeth to be corrected have at least one tooth between them draped with the polymer release material to provide a space adjacent to each of the corrected teeth. The corrected teeth are then covered with the polymer release material in a second round of treatment and restoration material is applied to one or more previously covered teeth to provide a first layer which simulates the dentin layer of teeth. Thereafter a simulated enamel layer is applied over the dentin layer using one or more alternating molds and yet another simulated incisal layer is applied over the enamel layer using one or more alternating molds employing the techniques described.

Methods of representing user edits or modifications of a treatment plan for a dental apparatus (e.g., one or a series of aligners) by managing an original clinical data set and a set of modifications of the clinical data set. Also described herein are methods of displaying, condensing, storing and reconstructing collision regions between two or more teeth.

Wire attachment dental appliances. A shell may be shaped to receive teeth of a dentition. The shell may include an attachment material reservoir that is configured to accept an attachment material therein. A wire attachment member may be configured to be secured to the shell. The attachment material reservoir and the wire attachment member may be aligned along an arch line of the shell in a manner that allows a wire to simultaneously pass through the attachment material reservoir and engage with the wire attachment member.

The utility model discloses a horizontal clamping screw retention type loose tooth fixing device, which comprises a lip-cheek side splint, a lingual palatal side splint and a retention screw, the lip-cheek side splint and the lingual palatal side splint respectively comprise a tooth fitting part and a retention part, the lip-cheek side splint and the lingual palatal side splint are respectively clamped on the inner side and the outer side of a tooth, and the retention screw is fixed on the lip-cheek side splint and the lingual palatal side splint. The opposite surfaces of the tooth fitting part are respectively matched with the lip buccal surface and the tongue palate surface of the tooth in shape, and the retention part is embedded in the tooth gap or the tail end of a dental arch and is fixedly connected through a retention screw. The dental implant can be used at the early stage of tooth loosening, and dentition defects can be repaired in time without affecting subsequent periodontal treatment.

The application discloses a Gothic arch retaining device for natural dentition and a manufacturing method of the device. The device comprises: a maxillary retaining splint comprising an inner side and an outer side formed around the maxillary natural dentition, the maxillary retaining splint further comprising a plurality of retaining connecting parts extended from the inner side and located in the same horizontal plane; a mandibular retaining splint comprising an inner side and an outer side formed around the mandibular natural dentition, the mandibular retaining splint further comprising a plurality of retaining connecting parts extended from the inner side and located in the same horizontal plane; a maxillary Gothic arch having a plurality of retaining pins for connecting with the plurality of retaining connecting parts of the maxillary retaining splint to determine the position of the maxillary Gothic arch; and a mandibular Gothic arch having a plurality of retaining pins for connecting with the plurality of retaining connecting parts of the mandibular retaining splint to determine the position of the mandibular Gothic arch. The Gothic arch can be installed, fixed and used on the natural dentition.

This invention discloses a digital complete denture manufacturing method and a digital complete denture, relating to the field of digital oral technology. The invention acquires digital models of the patient's edentulous maxilla and mandible, along with jaw position data. Virtual tooth arrangement and denture base design are completed in computer-aided design software, generating a composite digital model. The base data is converted into CNC instructions, and a five-axis CNC milling machine is used to cut prefabricated material blocks to produce a solid denture base. Matching solid prefabricated dentitions are selected from a prefabricated dentition database, surface-activated, and then bonded and fixed to complete the denture assembly. This method is highly efficient, provides stable precision, and significantly shortens the manufacturing cycle and the number of treatment visits.

A method is provided for generating and / or displaying a dynamic tooth chart In some cases, the method can include receiving dataset(s) associated with a patient. Each dataset comprises data corresponding to an imaging modality of a plurality of imaging modalities and provides information on a dentition of the patient. The datasets are processed to generate, for each dataset, one or more tooth portions. Each tooth portion comprises an image of one or more teeth of the patient. The one or more tooth portions are arranged into a dental chart. A visualization of the dental chart of the patient is generated and provided to a user device for presentation in a user interface. In some cases, a method can include determining one or more chart annotations can by performing a shape analysis, a teeth arrangement analysis, and / or a material analysis on 3D dental model(s) and / or 2D images of the patient's jaw.

An oral trauma stabilizer includes an upper stabilizer and a lower stabilizer. A plurality of shock absorbers couple the upper stabilizer to the lower stabilizer. The upper and lower stabilizers have an arcuate body extending from a first end to a second end. A channel is formed in each arcuate body and extends along a length from the first end to the second end of the arcuate body. A cross section of each channel may vary along the length of the respective channel. In use, the oral trauma stabilizer stabilizes an injured tooth, bone, or other portion of a patient's oral anatomy using non-affected portions of the dentition or other oral anatomy to secure the oral trauma stabilizer in place.

The application discloses a special cleaning brush head for tooth gap side, which comprises a shell, a brush shaft, brush hairs and a driving part. The shell is used for driving cooperation with a vibration source of a brush handle and for driving the brush shaft to vibrate. The brush shaft is arranged in rotation cooperation on the shell. The brush hairs are arranged in array on the brush shaft along the length direction of the brush shaft. The driving part is arranged in driving cooperation in the shell and is used for driving the brush shaft to rotate. The cleaning and massage functions are combined on one brush head. The patient does not need to replace the brush head or perform complicated hand operation. The brush head is convenient to use and has small operation difficulty. The frequency of oral cleaning of the patient is ensured to a certain extent, and the use enthusiasm of the patient is improved.

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.

The invention provides an orthodontic appliance system, which is used for staged mixed orthodontic teeth and comprises a tooth position correction tooth socket unit, a tooth space closing tooth socket unit and a dentition and occlusion shaping tooth socket unit. The tooth position correction tooth socket unit is used for being arranged on an initial dentition in a sleeving mode to obtain a corrected dentition. The tooth space closed tooth socket unit is used for being fixed on the correction dentition to obtain a tooth space closed dentition. The dentition and occlusion shaping tooth socket unit is used for being arranged on the tooth space closed dentition in a sleeving mode to obtain a shaping dentition. Therefore, the orthodontic appliance system can improve tooth arrangement and tooth spacing closure of a user.

Provided in the present invention is a method for digital virtual occlusal alignment in orthognathic surgery. The method comprises: acquiring a three-dimensional digital oral cavity model of a patient, the three-dimensional digital oral cavity model comprising jaw bones and dentitions; segmenting the jaw bones in the three-dimensional digital oral cavity model to form a segmentation model; calibrating reference position information on the segmentation model, and determining an adjustment rule; and aligning the segmented jaw bones in the segmentation model until the adjustment rule is satisfied.

The utility model discloses an oral and facial muscle function training device which can be worn between dentition and labial muscle or labial and buccal muscle of a patient, is used for blocking contact between the labial muscle or the labial and buccal muscle and the dentition, and comprises an approximately C-shaped blocking screen and a first expandable part, the first expandable part is at least arranged at the corresponding position, corresponding to the deepest position of the bottom of the vestibular sulcus of the patient, of the outer contour of the blocking screen, and after the oral and facial muscle function training device is worn, the first expandable part expands through saliva infiltration and abuts against the bottom of the vestibular sulcus. Thus, according to the size of the oral cavity space of a patient, the first expandable part expands after being infiltrated by saliva, does not continue to expand after meeting the bottom of the vestibular groove of the patient, and can stably abut against the position, so that the oral and facial muscle function training device can be stably worn between the dentition of the patient and the lip muscle or the lip-buccal muscle; the contact between the labial muscle or the labial cheek muscle and the dentition is blocked.

The present application provides a kind of dentition correction mouthpiece and its manufacturing method, which can be used for dental correction.The manufacturing method needs to obtain the tooth position configuration map of upper jaw and lower jaw, read and display the tooth position configuration map by dental software, connect the multiple fossae of upper jaw teeth into the arc line of upper occlusal line, connect the multiple cusps of lower jaw teeth into the arc line of lower occlusal line, generate a correction arc line through the upper and lower occlusal lines, then generate the upper jaw correction slot and the lower jaw correction slot corresponding to the cuspid-fossa, and finally generate the upper and lower jaw corresponding parts of the dentition correction mouthpiece to correct the problem of misaligned dentition of dental patients.

Systems and techniques are disclosed for automatically determining when to recommend a first treatment (e.g., an orthodontic treatment) prior to performing a second treatment (e.g., a dental restorative treatment), including: receiving a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a patient dentition having at least one of both the patient's gum or one or more teeth of the patient; calculating one or more oral care metrics based on the 3D representation of the patient dentition; comparing the one or more oral care metrics to corresponding target thresholds; determining, based on the comparison, that an orthodontic treatment is required prior to a dental restoration treatment of the one or more target teeth to be restored; and generating, based on the determination, a presentation of one or more indications that recommend the patient to perform an orthodontic treatment prior to performing a dental restoration treatment on the one or more target teeth to be restored.

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of tooth correction, in particular to an automatic tooth arrangement method and device based on point cloud understanding, equipment and medium, the method comprises the following steps: acquiring tooth point cloud based on cone beam computed tomography image; the tooth point cloud comprises three-dimensional point cloud data of complete teeth containing tooth roots; tooth features are extracted based on tooth point cloud data and a graph convolution network of an attention mechanism; the tooth features comprise a global feature vector of a dentition and a local feature vector of the teeth; the tooth features are aggregated and updated based on a dynamic graph recommendation method to obtain a pose prediction result; the pose prediction result is optimized based on the aggregated and updated tooth features and an iterative optimization method to obtain a target pose result. The automatic tooth arrangement method based on point cloud understanding can automatically calculate corresponding target poses according to original dentitions of patients with malocclusion, and the accuracy of automatic tooth arrangement results is improved.

According to the design and manufacturing method of the orthodontic postoperative intermaxillary traction device based on the invisible orthodontic device, CT scanning is conducted on a patient, craniomaxillofacial and tooth three-dimensional data are collected, and preparation is made for obtaining three-dimensional virtual tooth data of the patient through manufacturing of an anhydrite tooth model; data of a patient are imported into cranio-maxillofacial surgical operation planning software, a cranio-jaw virtual model of the patient is established, a manufactured anhydrite tooth model is subjected to three-dimensional scanning, dentition data are obtained, a maxillary tooth bone section is moved to a target position through a simulated operation on the virtual cranio-jaw model, and the patient is subjected to cranio-maxillofacial surgical operation planning software. And then determining a target position of a mandibular tooth bone section based on a final occlusion relationship, importing dentition data of the patient into three-dimensional virtual design software, performing Boolean operation, and manufacturing a traction device by using a three-dimensional printing technology. According to the device, assistance of methods such as a dental arch splint and an intermaxillary traction nail is not needed, intermaxillary elastic traction can be carried out after an invisible orthodontic patient completes a orthodontic operation, and it is ensured that the occlusion relation after the orthodontic operation meets the requirement.

The utility model relates to the technical field of dentistry. The utility model relates to a muscle agonist for linked correction of upper and lower teeth. The muscle agonist comprises an upper invisible tooth socket and a lower invisible tooth socket, wherein the upper invisible tooth socket is sleeved outside upper teeth; the lower invisible tooth socket is sleeved outside lower teeth; the incisor part of the lower invisible tooth socket is detachably connected with the incisor part of the upper invisible tooth socket; the occlusal surface at the molar position of the lower invisible tooth socket is connected or detachably connected with the occlusal surface at the molar position of the upper invisible tooth socket through a V-shaped bent connecting strip; an angle forming plate is clamped between the upper invisible tooth socket and the lower invisible tooth socket, and the angle forming plate is positioned on the occlusal surface of at least one of the upper invisible tooth socket and the lower invisible tooth socket. According to the utility model, by optimizing the structure of the muscle agonist, the upper invisible tooth socket can be conveniently matched with upper teeth, and after the upper invisible tooth socket is matched with lower teeth, the incisor part of the lower invisible tooth socket is detachably connected with the incisor part of the upper invisible tooth socket, so that the alignment of an upper jaw and a lower jaw is realized, and the correction of dentition deformity of relative protuberance of the upper jaw and retroduction of the lower jaw is realized.

The present application relates to the technical field of orthodontic digital design. Disclosed are a neural network-based automatic staging method and an electronic device. The automatic staging method comprises: a first acquisition step and a second acquisition step of respectively acquiring a first digital data set and a second digital data set representing a first dentition; a data fusion step of respectively fusing, on a per-tooth basis, digital data of corresponding teeth in the first digital data set and the second digital data set to obtain a fused digital data set; a staging prediction step of processing digital data of each tooth in the fused digital data set by using a trained neural network model for automatic staging to generate a stage digital data set representing a target position of the first dentition in the next stage; a data update step of updating the first digital data set on the basis of the stage digital data set; repeating the data fusion step, the staging prediction step, and the data update step until a preset prediction stopping condition is met; and a staging scheme output step.

The invention belongs to the field of medical instruments, and particularly discloses a gradient dentition-based hysteromyoma rotary cutter which comprises a rotary cutter bar, the rotary cutter bar is of a hollow tubular structure, a conveying cavity is formed in the rotary cutter bar in a penetrating mode in the axis direction of the rotary cutter bar, a gradient dentition structure is arranged on the inner wall of the front end of the conveying cavity, and the gradient dentition structure is arranged in the axis direction of the conveying cavity; the pull rod is arranged to pull the hysteromyoma slice to promote the hysteromyoma slice to be conveyed to the rear end of the conveying cavity when the rotary cutter bar rotates; the rotary cutter head is fixedly connected to the front end of the rotary cutter bar and is used for cutting hysteromyoma; and a rotary cutting driving device is arranged in the operating handle, is in transmission connection with the rear end of the rotary cutter bar, and is configured to drive the rotary cutter bar to rotate by taking the axis of the rotary cutter bar as a rotating shaft. By means of the structural design, the rotary cutter can pull cut hysteromyoma slices to be conveyed backwards, continuity and high efficiency of an operation are ensured, and meanwhile diffusion of tissue fragments in an operation area is prevented.

The invention relates to the technical field of orthodontic medical instruments, in particular to a dentition tongue side stress application traction device, an anchorage nail of the device can be arranged on the upper jaw palatal side portion of the dentition tongue side, a traction hook can be fixed relative to anterior teeth and extends from the anterior teeth to the dentition tongue side, a guide rod penetrates through a directional catheter located on the dentition tongue side, and the directional catheter is connected with the traction hook. The draw bar is fixedly connected with the draw hook; according to the application, the anchorage nail is arranged on the palatal side part of the upper jaw bone on the dentition tongue side, and the influence of loosening or falling of the anchorage nail on the treatment efficiency is reduced by utilizing the advantage of compact bone in the area; meanwhile, the guide rod penetrates through the directional catheter and is fixedly connected with the traction hook, so that the orthodontic force is strictly applied along the extension direction of the guide rod, and the risk of accidental rotation or inclination of teeth can be reduced; the traction piece is connected with the traction hook and the anchorage nail or is connected with the traction hook and the rear teeth, no additional connecting device needs to be added, the traction piece can be effectively matched with the orthodontic appliance to correct the teeth, the operation process is simplified, and the treatment cost is reduced.

Improved orthodontic appliances, along with related systems and methods, are provided. In one aspect, a method for fabricating a dental appliance includes fabricating a shell of a dental appliance via an additive manufacturing process. The shell can include a plurality of tooth-receiving cavities shaped to reposition a patient's dentition from a first arrangement toward a second arrangement. The shell can include a first polymeric material having a first elastic modulus. The method may further include fabricating an elastic coating on a surface of the shell, where the elastic coating includes a second polymeric material having a second elastic modulus. When the dental appliance is worn on the patient's dentition, the shell and the elastic coating are stretched by placement of the shell and the elastic coating on the patient's dentition, and the elastic coating resists the stretching to apply one or more forces onto the patient's dentition.

The present disclosure relates to computer-aided dental restoration system that is configured to estimate crown pose and representing virtual crown in 3D model. The system obtains 3D model of dentition of the patient. The system segments 3D model to obtain segmented tooth data and generates encoded 3D model representation suitable for processing by trained neural network. The method for generating encoded 3D model representation comprises subsampling point cloud representation based on segmented tooth data, determining surface normal representation, retrieving dental notation of restorative site, encoding each of plurality of points with corresponding surface normal representation and with value relative to restorative site to produce encoded 3D model representation, inputting encoded 3D model representation into trained neural network, and producing output, using trained neural network, wherein output includes prediction of translation of each point of encoded 3D model representation into positions corresponding to crown pose.

This specification discloses a method, apparatus, and system for processing three-dimensional tooth images. The method includes: acquiring a 3D original image containing teeth; identifying tooth voxel regions from the 3D original image; selecting crown feature voxels from the tooth voxel regions based on the grayscale information of the crown; determining a crown mask based on the crown feature voxels using morphological methods; and segmenting each tooth from the tooth voxel regions according to the mask to obtain a tooth segmentation result. This method uses morphological methods to determine the crown mask to be compatible with the actual dentition, resulting in high accuracy when segmenting each tooth from the tooth voxel regions according to the mask. This solution is highly adaptable to cases of malocclusion or tooth defects. This solution can segment individual teeth from three-dimensional tooth images fully automatically or with minimal manual assistance, achieving high segmentation efficiency and accuracy.