Denture Bite Rim System with Replica Teeth for Patient Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
The conventional process of constructing dental prosthetics with artificial teeth is inefficient due to the lack of direct patient feedback, leading to multiple visits and adjustments to ensure proper fit and natural appearance, resulting in patient dissatisfaction and increased costs for both patients and dental professionals.
Innovation Solution
A dental bite rim system featuring anatomically correct replica teeth with adjustable characteristics, such as shape, size, and color, which can be pre-mounted on bite rims and easily modified by dentists, allowing patients to select preferred features before sending the design to a laboratory for finalization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If conventional wax bite rims without replica teeth are used, then the dental laboratory can prepare models without direct patient feedback, but multiple visits and adjustments are required to ensure proper fit and natural appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses replica teeth as physical copies of permanent artificial teeth that can be placed on bite rims. These replicas allow patients to see and evaluate tooth characteristics (shape, size, color) before final denture fabrication, eliminating the need for multiple adjustment visits while capturing patient preferences accurately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables preliminary selection of tooth characteristics by having patients evaluate replica teeth during the initial appointment. This preliminary action captures patient feedback on tooth appearance and fit before the dental laboratory fabricates the permanent dentures, preventing the need for subsequent adjustment visits.
2Ease of manufacture
If dental technicians set permanent teeth based solely on bite rim markings, then the process can be completed without patient presence, but the patient may dislike aspects of the prepared dental model requiring multiple follow-up visits
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces direct patient feedback by allowing patients to evaluate replica teeth during the initial appointment. Patients can provide immediate feedback on tooth characteristics (shape, size, color, arrangement) before the dental laboratory begins permanent tooth setting, ensuring the final dentures meet patient expectations and eliminating the need for corrective follow-up visits.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses replica teeth as temporary copies that patients can evaluate before permanent teeth are set. These replicas serve as a communication bridge between patient expectations and technician execution, allowing patients to approve tooth characteristics visually and physically before final fabrication begins.
3Reliability
If multiple follow-up visits are conducted to adjust permanent artificial teeth, then patient satisfaction can be improved, but operational costs and time loss increase for both patients and dental professionals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs the critical patient feedback action during the initial appointment by having patients evaluate replica teeth before leaving the office. This preliminary evaluation and approval process ensures that all necessary decisions about tooth characteristics are made before the dental laboratory begins permanent fabrication, eliminating the need for multiple follow-up adjustment visits.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses replica teeth as evaluative copies that patients can assess during the initial visit. These replicas allow complete patient evaluation of tooth characteristics without requiring follow-up visits, as all adjustments and approvals are made during the first appointment when replicas are present.
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AI summary
A bite rim system includes a plurality of dental bite rims having a shape and size that is suitable for use in a human mouth. A plurality of anatomically correct replica teeth is constructed from wax, and also includes various tooth characteristics of different shapes, thicknesses, sizes and colors. A series of replica teeth are removably pre-mounted onto one or more of the bite rims in an anatomically correct pattern. The system also includes one or more replica teeth strips having a front facing surface with the image of one or more teeth imprinted thereon, and a back facing surface that is coated with an adhesive material for mating with one of the dental bite rims.