Method for manufacturing dental implant components

A system, comprising:

• a computer;
• and
• a computer readable medium, coupled with the computer and comprising a computer readable and executable graphical imaging computer program that, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to:
• receive data associated with a patient's mouth and/or a model of the patient's mouth, the data including at least a portion of an attachment member attached to a dental component installed in the patient's mouth at an installation site, the attachment member including one or more scannable surface features that indicate a position and orientation of the dental component;
• generate, from the received data, a three-dimensional virtual model of the installation site, the three-dimensional virtual model positioning the dental component relative to a coordinate system, wherein the coordinate system comprises a first axis in a plane of a seating surface of the dental component, a second axis in the seating surface plane and perpendicular to the first axis, and a third axis perpendicular to the seating surface plane;
• remove, from a display of the installation site provided by the three-dimensional virtual model with reference to the coordinate system, at least a portion of the attachment member to reveal at least a portion of a seating surface of the dental component configured to engage the attachment member and/or replacing, in the display, at least a portion of the seating surface of the dental component;
• and
• provide the display to a user device to develop a permanent or temporary prosthesis, wherein the display of the installation site omits the one or more of the at least a portion of the attachment member and the dental component.

A method of creating a three-dimensional virtual model of a patient's mouth, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a computer, data associated with a patient's mouth or a physical model of the patient's mouth, the data including at least a portion of an attachment member attached to a dental component installed in the patient's mouth at an installation site, the attachment member including one or more scannable surface features that indicate a position and orientation of the dental component;
• generating, by the computer executing a graphical imaging computer program and from the received data, a three-dimensional virtual model of the installation site, the three-dimensional virtual model positioning at least a portion of the dental component relative to a coordinate system comprising mutually orthogonal first, second, and third axes, wherein the first axis is in a plane of a seating surface of the dental component, a second axis is in the seating surface plane and perpendicular to the first axis, and a third axis is perpendicular to the seating surface plane;
• removing, by the computer executing the graphical imaging computer program, with reference to the coordinate system at least a portion of the attachment member from the three-dimensional virtual model to reveal at least a portion of a seating surface of the dental component configured to engage the attachment member and form a first altered three-dimensional virtual model, wherein the first altered three-dimensional virtual model is configured to render a display of the installation site omitting at least one of the at least a portion of the attachment member and the at least a portion of the dental component;
• and
• based on the first altered three-dimensional virtual model, one or more of:
• generating a three-dimensional image of an emergence profile contour used on an abutment, creating a transparent tooth outline for superimposition within an edentulous site, subtracting a given dimension from a mesial, distal, buccal, lingual, and/or occlusal area of a superimposed tooth dimension, and developing a permanent or temporary prosthesis.

A system, comprising:

• a computer;
• and
• a computer readable medium, coupled with the computer and comprising a computer readable and executable graphical imaging computer program that, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to:
• receive data associated with a patient's mouth or a physical model of the patient's mouth, the data including at least a portion of an attachment member attached to a dental component installed in the patient's mouth at an installation site, the attachment member including one or more scannable surface features that indicate a position and orientation of the dental component;
• generate, from the received data, a three-dimensional virtual model of the installation site, the three-dimensional virtual model positioning at least a portion of the dental component relative to a coordinate system comprising mutually orthogonal first, second, and third axes, wherein the first axis in a plane of a seating surface of the dental component, the second axis is in a plane of the seating surface and perpendicular to the first axis, and the third axis is perpendicular to the seating surface plane and wherein the graphical imaging computer program comprises a plurality of virtual implants and implant analogs and models an upper surface of an implant based on implant identification information provided by the one or more scannable surface features and/or received from a user, the implant identification information identifying a virtual implant of the plurality of virtual implants;
• remove, with reference to the coordinate system, at least a portion of the attachment member from the three-dimensional virtual model to reveal at least a portion of a seating surface of the dental component configured to engage the attachment member and form a first altered three-dimensional virtual model;
• and
• based on the first altered three-dimensional virtual model, one or more of generate a three-dimensional image of an emergence profile contour used on an abutment, create a transparent tooth outline for superimposition within an edentulous site, subtract a given dimension from a mesial, distal, buccal, lingual, and/or occlusal area of a superimposed tooth dimension, and develop a permanent or temporary prosthesis.