Customized Dental Prosthesis for Periodontal or Osseointegration, and Related Systems
AssigneeNatural Dental Implants AG
InventorRuedger Rubbert
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Abstract
A dental prosthesis to be integrated into a jaw bone cavity of a pre-identified patient. An example of a dental prosthesis includes a first manufactured portion having a surface shaped to substantially dimensionally conform three dimensionally to an undersized shape of the outer three-dimensional surface shape of a root of a tooth to be replaced, and a second manufactured portion shaped to substantially conform to the three-dimensional surface of a crown of the tooth. The outer surface of the root portion can include or be coated with a biocompatible material that is suitable to be integrated into the extraction socket and adopted by existing tissue forming the socket.
Claims23
A method of designing and manufacturing a dental prosthesis to replace a specific natural tooth of a pre-identified patient, the dental prosthesis to be integrated into a specific receiving jawbone cavity structure of the pre-identified patient corresponding to the specific natural tooth, the dental prosthesis being a finished manufactured product prior to its insertion into the specific receiving jawbone cavity structure, the dental prosthesis comprising a root portion, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving in-vivo imaging data describing a three-dimensional surface shape of at least portions of at least one of the following:
- the specific natural tooth, and the specific receiving jawbone cavity structure;
- deriving a three-dimensional surface of a virtual reduced-body root portion model from the imaging data;
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- forming a virtual dental prosthesis model comprising the virtual reduced-body root portion model.
A method of designing and manufacturing a dental prosthesis to replace a specific natural tooth of a pre-identified patient, the dental prosthesis to be integrated into a receiving jawbone cavity structure of the pre-identified patient corresponding to the specific natural tooth, the dental prosthesis being a finished manufactured product prior to its insertion into the receiving jawbone cavity structure, the dental prosthesis comprising a root portion, the method comprising the steps of:
- at least partially custom-shaping a dental prosthesis material responsive to a virtual dental prosthesis model comprising a virtual root portion model;
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- at least partially using a dental prosthesis material to make the dental prosthesis a finished manufactured product so that substantial portions of an outer surface of the root portion of the dental prosthesis have a custom three-dimensional surface shape specifically dimensionally matching an undersized three-dimensional surface shape of a corresponding outer surface portion of the three-dimensional surface shape
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.