Method of manufacturing a dental component
AssigneeDekema Dental-Keramikofen GmbH
InventorStephan Miller
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a dental component, in particular a dental prosthesis or a partial dental prosthesis, by means of a dental furnace, comprising the following steps: (i) producing a model of the dental component; (ii) embedding the model in an investment material; (iii) removing the model from the investment material, in particular by heating or burning out, to obtain a negative mold of the model; (iv) inserting a raw material required for manufacturing the dental component into the negative mold; (v) producing the dental component in the negative mold; and (vi) deflasking the dental component in an at least partly automated manner, in particular by means of a stripping manufacturing process, on the basis of a virtual model of the dental component.
Claims19
A method of manufacturing a dental component, the method comprising the following steps:
- (i) producing a model of the dental component;
- (ii) embedding the model in an investment material;
- (iii) removing the model from the investment material to obtain a negative mold of the model;
- (iv) inserting a raw material for manufacturing the dental component into the negative mold;
- (v) producing the dental component in the negative mold from the raw material;
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- (vi) deflasking the dental component from the negative mold in an at least partly automated manner on the basis of a virtual model of the dental component, wherein data of the virtual model is used to determine a position of the dental component in the negative mold for the deflasking.
A system for manufacturing a dental component, the system comprising:
- a deflasking device for an at least partly automated removal of the dental component from a negative mold formed by embedding a model of the dental component in an investment material;
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- a control device, with the deflasking device being connectable or connected to the control device, and with the control device configured to provide control data to the deflasking device for deflasking the dental component from the negative mold on the basis of a virtual model of the dental component such that data of the virtual model is used to determine a position of the dental component in the negative mold for the deflasking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.