Healing components for use in taking impressions and methods for making the same
AssigneeBiomet 3i, LLC
InventorsJohn T. Amber, Stephan S. Porter, Theodore M. Powell
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Abstract
The present invention provides a healing abutment for attachment to a dental implant with marking locations thereon. The marking locations either lack or have markers that provide a binary code system for retrieving unique information about the healing abutment and the underlying implant.
Claims17
1-25. (canceled)
A method of creating a prosthesis for mating with a dental implant in a mouth of a patient having a dental implant installed therein, the dental implant being coupled to an attachment member having at least one informational marker that indicates information regarding the dental implant, the method comprising:
- scanning a portion of the mouth of the patient using an imaging device coupled to a computer to generate scan data, the scanned portion of the mouth including the attachment member that is coupled to the dental implant;
- displaying, on a display device, a three-dimensional computer model of the scanned portion of the mouth, the three-dimensional computer model being derived from the scan data;
- based at least on the information indicated by the at least one informational marker, displaying an image of the dental implant in the three-dimensional computer model of the scanned portion of the mouth;
- using the three-dimensional computer model, developing a design for a prosthesis to be attached to the dental implant in the mouth of the patient;
- transmitting dimensional information associated with the designed prosthesis to a milling machine;
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- by use of the milling machine, fabricating at least a portion of the prosthesis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.