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US 11,599,997 B2Granted
Dental imaging device
AssigneeDental Monitoring
InventorsPhilippe Salah, Laurent Debraux, Thomas Pellissard, Guillaume Ghyselinck
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Abstract
A method to acquire dental images of a patient with a support defining a chamber that is in communication with an outside of said chamber via a first opening and via a second opening. The method includes the following steps: fixing a mobile phone in front of the second opening; positioning the first opening in front of a mouth of the patient; and acquiring at least one dental image by means of the mobile phone.
Claims28
A patient-operated imaging device comprising:
- a support;
- a mouth retractor formed as an integral part of the support and defining a retractor opening;
- and
- a mechanism for fastening an image acquisition apparatus to the support in a position in which the acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive an image of the retractor opening through which, in a service position, front teeth of the patient are visible,
- wherein the support takes the form of a box that is in communication with the outside via the retractor opening and via an acquisition opening through which the image acquisition apparatus fastened to the support receives the image of the retractor opening, the support being configured so that the image acquisition apparatus observes the retractor opening regardless of the configuration of the support;
- the mechanism being chosen from the group consisting of an elastic member, clip-fastening means, self-gripping strips of hook and loop fastener type, clamping jaws, screws, magnets, and complementarity of shape between the support and the image acquisition apparatus, or consisting of a cover that may be clamped against the support,
- wherein the patient-operated imaging device is adapted to obtain a plurality of images, wherein at least two of the plurality of images correspond to different angles with respect to the patient's teeth.
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An patient-operated imaging device comprising:
- a support;
- a mouth retractor formed as an integral part of the support and defining a retractor opening;
- and
- an image acquisition apparatus fastened to the support in a position in which the image acquisition apparatus is oriented so as to receive an image of the retractor opening, through which, in a service position, front teeth of the patient are visible;
- wherein the support takes the form of a box that is in communication with the outside via the retractor opening and via an acquisition opening through which the image acquisition apparatus fastened to the support receives the image of the retractor opening, the support being configured so that the image acquisition apparatus observes the retractor opening regardless of the configuration of the support,
- wherein the patient-operated imaging device is adapted to obtain a plurality of images, wherein at least two of the plurality of images correspond to different angles with respect to the patient's teeth.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.