Dental prosthesis for determining abrasion facets
AssigneeHeraeus Kulzer GmbH
InventorsUwe Boehm, Matthias Funk
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Abstract
The invention relates to a temporary dental prosthesis for determining abrasion facets, having at least one prosthetic tooth, in which at least the occlusion surface of the prosthetic tooth or at least one of the prosthetic teeth is made of a material that is abradable such that, within a maximum of 12 weeks of use as a dental prosthesis by a patient, abrasion facets are produced on the prosthetic teeth and are suitable for ascertaining the chewing movements of the jaw of the patient. The invention also relates to a method for determining the chewing movement of a set of teeth from measured abrasion facets, in which a temporary dental prosthesis made of an abradable material is inserted in a patient, and to a method for producing a final dental prosthesis.
Claims9
A method for determining the chewing movement of a dentition from measured abrasion facets, the method comprising inserting a temporary dental prosthesis made of an abradable material in a patient, and after a maximum of 12 weeks of use of the temporary dental prosthesis, measuring the abrasion facets on the temporary dental prosthesis, and calculating the chewing movements of the dentition of the patient from the measured abrasion facets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.