Robotic device for dental surgery
AssigneeBiomet 3i, LLC
InventorsZachary B. Suttin, Stephen S. Porter
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Abstract
A robotic system includes a base, a grounding arm, a working arm, and one or more sensors. The grounding arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled to a fixed structure within the mouth of the patient for establishing an origin for the robotic system. The working arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled with one or more tools for use during an installation of a dental implant in the mouth. The one or more sensors are for monitoring positions of the grounding arm and/or the working arm and to generate positional data that is used to create a post-operative virtual three-dimensional model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient.
Claims13
At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processor circuitry of a computer-controlled device, cause the processor to:
- receive pre-operative scan data of a portion of a patient's mouth;
- create a pre-operative virtual model of at least a portion of the patient's mouth using the pre-operative scan data, wherein the pre-operative virtual model comprises a virtual grounding member:
- receive positional data of an origin and a working arm, the origin established by a grounding arm of a robotic system and the working arm configured to be coupled with one or more tools for use during installation of a dental implant, wherein the origin is established by coupling the grounding arm to a grounding member in the patient's mouth, wherein the virtual grounding member represents the grounding member in the pre-operative virtual model;
- determine a location of at least a portion of the working arm relative to the origin;
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- create a post-operative virtual model of at least a portion of the patient's mouth created from the positional data, the post-operative virtual model including at least a portion of a virtual model of the dental implant that corresponds to a location and orientation of the dental implant in the patient's mouth, the post-operative virtual model being created without receiving post-operative scan data.
A system, comprising:
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:
- receiving pre-operative scan data of a portion of a patient's mouth;
- creating a pre-operative virtual model of at least a portion of the pre-operative scan data, wherein the pre-operative virtual model comprises a virtual grounding member;
- receiving positional data of an origin and a working arm, the origin established by a grounding arm of a robotic system and the working arm configured to be coupled with one or more tools for use during installation of a dental implant, wherein the origin is established by coupling the grounding arm to a grounding member in the patient's mouth, wherein the virtual grounding member represents the grounding member in the pre-operative virtual model;
- determining a location of at least a portion of the working arm relative to the origin;
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- creating a post-operative virtual model of at least a portion of the patient's mouth created from the positional data, the post-operative virtual model including at least a portion of a virtual model of the dental implant that corresponds to a location and orientation of the dental implant in the patient's mouth, the post-operative virtual model being created without receiving post-operative scan data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.