Dental Occlusion Sampling Tool with Adjustable Ridges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional bite registration tools do not have means to adjust inclination based on individual patient conditions, leading to unintentional tool inclinations and inaccurate bite registrations.
Innovation Solution
A bite registration tool with orthogonal ridges on its components allows for adjustment of horizontality and verticality based on the patient's anatomical features, such as nose, eyes, and ears, ensuring accurate positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional bite registration tools are used, then the basic bite registration function is provided, but the tool inclination cannot be adjusted for individual patient conditions, leading to inaccurate registrations
Solution Approach 1:
The bite registration tool incorporates adjustable inclination mechanisms that allow the tool to be dynamically positioned according to each patient's individual anatomical conditions (nose, eyes, ears positions). The tool transitions from a fixed rigid structure to one with adjustable degrees of freedom, enabling accurate adaptation to varying patient geometries while maintaining registration precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention modifies the tool's orientation parameters (inclination angles) to match individual patient anatomical features. By allowing adjustment of these geometric parameters, the tool can be customized for each patient's specific nose-eye-ear relationships, thereby achieving accurate bite registration without requiring multiple different tools.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional adjustment means are added to the tool, then individual patient adaptation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bite registration tool is divided into modular segments that can be independently adjusted. Rather than designing a completely complex new tool, the invention segments the adjustment functionality into discrete, manageable components (such as separate adjustment mechanisms for different inclination axes), making the overall system easier to manufacture and operate despite the added adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention designs adjustment mechanisms that serve multiple functions: they simultaneously enable inclination adjustment for different patient anatomies and maintain the structural integrity and positioning accuracy of the tool. The adjustment means are integrated into the existing tool structure, allowing one component to perform both adjustment and structural support functions, thereby minimizing overall complexity.
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AI summary
Provided is a bite registration tool configured to properly adjust its inclination in taking a bite registration and with which an accurate bite registration can be taken. The bite registration tool includes a rear curved plate that has a curved plate shape and is to be arranged between lips and alveolar ridges of a patient; and a front curved plate that has a plate shape, arranged in a manner that one plate surface faces to the rear curved plate having a predetermined gap, to be arranged forward having contact with the lips, wherein the other plate surface of the front curved plate is provided with at least one ridge protruding and extending in a predetermined direction.