Digitizing and merging sectional impression trays to create a dental arch for dental device manufacturing
OwnerJason Griffithsinventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and kit for preparing a dental device. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a dental impression kit to a user; (b) receiving a dental impression from the user from the dental impression kit; (c) digitizing each dental impression to form a three dimensional image; (d) merging the digitized images to form a three dimensional image of the arch; and (e) manufacturing a dental device from the three dimensional image of the arch.
Claims10
A method of preparing a dental device, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a dental impression kit to a user;
- (b) receiving a dental impression from the user from the dental impression kit;
- (c) digitizing each dental impression to form a three dimensional image;
- (d) merging the digitized images to form a three dimensional image of the arch;
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- (e) manufacturing a dental device from the three dimensional image of the arch.
A dental impression kit comprising at least two impression trays in which each tray is configured to have an overlap of at least one tooth with the adjacent tray and the combination of the impression trays forms an entirety of the dental arch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.