Bar manufacturing and denture reference and registration system
AssigneeGlobal Dental Science, LLC
InventorsJohannes Petrus Michael Grobbee, Robert van der Meer
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Abstract
An improved denture system is disclosed. An improved denture system has a support bar and a denture material blank. The denture material blank has an oversize cutout to secure the support bar. The support bar has oversized implant interfaces and optional oversized tooth abutments. After securing the support bar in the denture material blank the final shape and dimensions of the implant interfaces and optionally the final shape and dimensions of the tooth abutments will be machined. The denture system will result in an accurate reference and registration between the denture teeth and base and the implant interfaces
Claims19
An denture support bar system comprising:
- a denture material blank further comprising at least one oversize cutout;
- a support bar comprising at least one oversized implant interfaces extending in a first direction from the support bar;
- the denture support bar system being capable of reference and registration to the milling device.
A method for providing positioning of a support bar within a denture system, said method comprising:
- removing an oversized cut-out of a support bar from a dental material blank:
- positioning at least one oversized implant interface to the support bar;
- optionally positioning to the support bar at least one oversized tooth abutments or tooth cut-outs to a side opposite of the at least one oversized implant interface;
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- securing the support bar to the denture material blank.
A denture material blank comprising:
- a support bar comprising a plurality of oversized implant interfaces extending a first direction, and optionally extending a direction opposite the first direction a plurality of tooth abutments or tooth cut-outs;
- an oversized cutout of the support bar in the blank;
- the support bar configured to rest in oversize cutout of the denture material blank;
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- a filler material in the oversized cutout that secures the support bar to the denture material blank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.