Bar manufacturing and denture reference and registration system
AssigneeGlobal Dental Science, LLC
InventorsJohannes Petrus Michael Grobbee, Robert van der Meer
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Abstract
An improved denture system is disclosed. An improved denture system has a support bar and a denture material blank. The denture material blank has an oversize cutout to secure the support bar. The support bar has oversized implant interfaces and optional oversized tooth abutments. After securing the support bar in the denture material blank the final shape and dimensions of the implant interfaces and optionally the final shape and dimensions of the tooth abutments will be machined. The denture system will result in an accurate reference and registration between the denture teeth and base and the implant interfaces.
Claims10
A denture material blank having a top surface correlating to a coronal portion of a denture and a bottom surface correlating to an implant interfacing portion of a denture, with one of the top surface or bottom surface having a flat profile, the denture material blank comprising:
- a support bar within the denture material blank and the support bar at least partially comprising a material different than that of the denture material blank, the support bar further comprising two or more solid cylindrical shapes capable of being milled into a smaller volume, the two or more solid cylindrical shapes capable of being milled into a smaller volume extending in a first direction towards the bottom surface from the support bar, the two or more solid cylindrical shapes each extending in the first direction toward an end, the two or more solid cylindrical shapes being integrated within the denture material blank and an added denture material at least up to the end of each of the two or more solid cylindrical shapes.
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