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US 9,750,582 B1Granted
Endodontic therapy system, apparatus and method making use of a disposable CT registration tray device with pre-set radiographic registration markers
OwnerL. Stephen Buchananinventor
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Abstract
A system for endodontic therapy includes a radio-opaque tray having three or more fiduciary markers embedded in the tray, a leveling device, and one or more bite stops arranged to ensure maintenance of adequate bite registration or impression material between opposing teeth to allow 3D reconstruction of occlusal surfaces.
Claims9
A system for endodontic therapy, the system comprising:
- a scanning appliance including a radio-opaque tray including three or more fiduciary markers embedded in the tray, a leveling device arranged to limit a height of an artifacted coronal zone, and one or more bite stops, and
- a virtual endodontic treatment plan including a scan of the scanning appliance and at least one access path to a root canal,
- the bite stops arranged to ensure maintenance of adequate bite registration or impression material between opposing teeth.
A system for endodontic therapy, the system comprising:
- a scanning appliance including a radio-opaque tray including three or more fiduciary markers embedded in the tray, a leveling device, and one or more bite stops;
- a virtual endodontic treatment plan including a scan of the scanning appliance and at least one access path to a root canal;
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- an aiming device arranged to provide a starting point to a canal orifice in an axial plane and elongate each of those starting points as lines in X and Y-slice angles to form the access path,
- the bite stops arranged to ensure maintenance of adequate bite registration or impression material between opposing teeth.
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