Method and user interface for use in manufacturing multi-shaded dental restorations
Assignee3Shape A/S
InventorRune FISKER
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method, a system, and a user interface for determining a preferred relative arrangement of digital restoration designs and digital representations of multi-shaded milling blocks for use when manufacturing dental restorations from multi-shaded milling blocks. A preferred first relative arrangement of a first digital restoration design and a digital representation of a first multi-shaded milling block is determined, and therefrom a preferred second relative arrangement of a second digital restoration design and a digital representation of a second multi-shaded milling block is determined.
Claims21
A method for determining a preferred relative arrangement of digital restoration designs and digital representations of multi-shaded milling blocks for use when manufacturing dental restorations from multi-shaded milling blocks, the method comprising:
- obtaining digital representations of at least a first and a second multi-shaded milling block, where each digital representation comprises shade data describing the shade distribution of the multi-shaded milling block;
- obtaining at least a first and a second digital restoration design;
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- determining a preferred first relative arrangement of the first digital restoration design and the digital representation of the first multi-shaded milling block, and determining therefrom a preferred second relative arrangement of the second digital restoration design and the digital representation of the second multi-shaded milling block.
A user interface for determining a preferred relative arrangement of digital restoration designs and digital representations of multi-shaded milling blocks for use when manufacturing dental restorations from multi-shaded milling blocks, where the user interface is configured for:
- obtaining digital representations of at least a first and a second multi-shaded milling block, where each digital representation comprises shade data describing the shade distribution of the multi-shaded milling block;
- obtaining at least a first and a second digital restoration design;
- visualizing at least the first digital restoration design and at least the shade data of the digital representation of the first multi-shaded milling block;
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- determining a preferred first relative arrangement of the first digital restoration design and the digital representation of the first multi-shaded milling block, and determining therefrom a preferred second relative arrangement of the second digital restoration design and the digital representation of the second multi-shaded milling block.
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