Dental prosthetic
AssigneeIndiana Dental Prosthetics, Inc.
InventorRobert L. Rusler
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system of manufacturing a custom set of pre-manufactured upper and lower dentures is provided. In one form, a set of master upper and lower dentures is created. The master upper and lower dentures are used to create reusable upper and lower dental matrices, respectively. These re-usable upper and lower dental matrices are repeatedly used to manufacture upper and lower pre-manufactured or standard sized dentures, respectively. Optionally, a dental patient can have these upper and lower pre-manufactured dentures custom fit or relined to fit the dental patient's mouth to form upper reline and/or lower reline pre-manufactured dentures. The dental patient can have custom fit dentures in two visits with the dentist, even two visits in the same day.
Claims19
A method of manufacturing a denture comprising:
- forming a dental matrix by removing a master denture from a denture container filled with a hard dental material and an impression material to expose an impression of a plurality of prosthetic teeth in said impression material created from said master denture;
- forming a standard sized denture from said dental matrix by placing a plurality of prosthetic teeth in said impression, covering said plurality of prosthetic teeth with a doughy material, and curing said doughy material to create said standard sized denture;
- and
- relining said standard sized denture to form a custom fit denture for a medical patient by filling said standard sized denture with an impression material, placing said standard sized denture in a reline jig, setting said reline jig to a reline configuration determined by a reline impression created from said medical patient's teeth, and curing said impression material to form said custom fit denture.
A method of manufacturing a standard sized denture comprising:
- placing a plurality of prosthetic teeth in an impression in a dental matrix, wherein said plurality of prosthetic teeth are a similar size as a plurality of teeth from a master denture, and wherein said master denture was used to create said impression in said dental matrix;
- packing a doughy material in said impression to cover said plurality of prosthetic teeth;
- pressing portions of said dental matrix together to compress said doughy material into said impression;
- curing said doughy material in said dental matrix;
- and
- removing a standard sized denture from said dental matrix.
A method of forming a custom fit denture from a standard sized denture for a medical patient, comprising:
- filling a standard sized denture with an amount of impression material;
- creating a reline impression of a medical patient's teeth in said standard sized denture filled with said impression material;
- placing said standard sized denture filled with said reline impression in a reline jig;
- curing said impression material in said reline jig wherein said reline impression determines a certain configuration of said reline jig;
- removing said reline impression from said standard sized denture;
- filling said standard sized denture with a packing material;
- placing said standard sized denture filled with said packing material in said reline jig;
- adjusting said reline jig to said certain configuration determined by said reline impression;
- and
- curing said packing material in said standard sized denture to form a custom fit denture for said medical patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.