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US 10,588,501 B2Granted
Dental imaging device
AssigneeDental Monitoring
InventorsPhilippe Salah, Laurent Debraux, Guillaume Ghyselinck, Thomas Pellissard
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Abstract
An imaging device including a support, a dental retractor fastened to the support and defining a retractor opening, a mirror fastened to at least one of the support and the retractor, and structure for fastening an image acquisition apparatus to the support in a position in which the acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive a composite image including a direct image of the retractor opening and an image of the retractor opening reflected by the mirror.
Claims19
An imaging kit including:
- a dental imaging device;
- and
- an imaging acquisition apparatus;
- said dental imaging device including:
- a support;
- a dental retractor fastened to the support and defining a retractor opening;
- at least one mirror fastened to at least one of the support and the retractor;
- and
- means for fastening the image acquisition apparatus to the support in a position in which the acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive a composite image including a direct image of the retractor opening and an image of the retractor opening reflected by said at least one mirror;
- said image acquisition apparatus being fastened to the device so as to acquire a said composite image,
- said dental retractor including a rim extending around the retractor opening and arranged in such way that the patient's lips may rest on it, leaving the patient's teeth visible through said retractor opening.
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An imaging kit including:
- a dental imaging device;
- and
- an imaging acquisition apparatus;
- said dental imaging device including:
- a support;
- a dental retractor fastened to the support and defining a retractor opening;
- at least one mirror fastened to at least one of the support and the retractor;
- and
- means for fastening the image acquisition apparatus to the support in a position in which the acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive a composite image including a direct image of the retractor opening and an image of the retractor opening reflected by said at least one mirror;
- said image acquisition apparatus being fastened to the device so as to acquire a said composite image;
- said support taking the form of a box that is in communication with an outside of the box only via the retractor opening and via an acquisition opening.
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An imaging kit including:
- a dental imaging device;
- and
- an imaging acquisition apparatus;
- said dental imaging device including:
- a support;
- a dental retractor fastened to the support and defining a retractor opening;
- at least one mirror fastened to at least one of the support and the retractor;
- and
- means for fastening the image acquisition apparatus to the support in a position in which the acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive a composite image including a direct image of the retractor opening and an image of the retractor opening reflected by said at least one mirror;
- said image acquisition apparatus being fastened to the device so as to acquire a said composite image;
- said retractor including lobes arranged to spread cheeks of a patient away from teeth of said patient.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.