Dental implant with coded upper surface
AssigneeBiomet 3i, LLC
InventorsRoss W Towse, Zachary B. Suttin
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Abstract
A dental implant for insertion into bone within a patient's mouth comprises a body and a scannable code. The body includes a bone-engaging exterior surface, an anti-rotational feature for non-rotationally mating with an abutment, and an upper region. The upper region includes an upper surface for engaging the abutment. The scannable code on the upper surface provides information concerning the dental implant. The information includes at least two features of the dental implant.
Claims21
A system of using scan data of a dental implant pre-positioned in bone within a mouth of a patient to develop a virtual model for use in a virtual design process, comprising:
- a computer comprising a messaging input and output;
- a data input configured to receive scan data of the mouth of the patient including a surface of the dental implant, the scan data including information corresponding to scanning of a scannable code on the surface of the dental implant, wherein the scannable code provides information regarding an anti-rotational feature of the dental implant;
- a computer in communication with the messaging input that is configured to develop a virtual model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient and uses the information corresponding to scanning of a scannable code to locate a position of a central axis of a virtual implant within the virtual model and an angular orientation of the anti-rotational feature in the virtual model.
A method of making a patient-specific prosthetic restoration dental component using scan data of a dental implant pre-positioned in bone within a mouth of a patient to develop a virtual model for use in a virtual design process, comprising:
- receiving, by a computer, scan data of the mouth of the patient including a surface of the dental implant, the scan data including information corresponding to a scannable code on the surface of the dental implant, wherein the scannable code provides information regarding an anti-rotational feature of the dental implant;
- providing, by a computer display, a display of a virtual model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient;
- using, by the computer, the information corresponding to scanning of a scannable code to position a virtual implant within the virtual model and determine an angular orientation of the anti-rotational feature in the virtual model;
- developing, by the computer using the virtual model, the patient-specific prosthetic restoration dental component to be placed on the dental implant;
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- providing instructions to make the patient-specific prosthetic restoration dental component.
A system of using scan data of a dental implant pre-positioned in bone within a mouth of a patient to develop a virtual model for use in a virtual design process, comprising:
- an input configured to receive scan data of the mouth of the patient including a surface of the dental implant, the scan data including information corresponding to a scannable code on the surface of the dental implant;
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- a computer configured to develop a virtual model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient and use the scan data to locate a virtual implant within the virtual model, wherein the scannable code includes a circumferentially extending marker and wherein a radius of curvature of the circumferentially extending marker provides a position of a central axis of the dental implant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.