Blank with encoding and method of manufacturing a dental moulded component
AssigneeSirona Dental Systems GmbH
InventorKlaus Niewiadomski
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Abstract
A blank for manufacturing molded dental components includes a blank body that includes tooth repairing material. A molded dental component is manufactured by removing portions of the tooth repairing material using a tool. The blank is encoded with at least one structure as a carrier of information regarding properties of the blank body. The at least one structure is arranged such that at least one of a position, dimensions, or a type of structure can be determined by sensing or measuring the blank. In this context, the position, the dimensions, or the type of the structure are embodied such that a value acquired during a determination of the above corresponds to information about a property of the blank body.
Claims21
A blank for producing dental shaped bodies, comprising:
- a corpus of tooth restoration material, from which a shaped body to be fabricated is carved by a tool adapted to remove the material;
- a coding device that includes at least one structure acting as a carrier of information regarding characteristics of said blank corpus, said at least one structure being located on said blank such that a position, a size, or a nature of said at least one structure can be ascertained by scanning or measuring said blank, wherein a value of the position, the size, or the nature of said at least one structure is acquired by detecting analog information regarding a property of said blank corpus.
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