Temporary dental prosthesis for use in developing final dental prosthesis

A method of manufacturing a permanent prosthesis for attachment to a dental implant installed in a mouth of a patient, the method comprising:

• fabricating a patient specific temporary prosthesis (PSTP), a supragingival portion of the PSTP having a customized anatomical tooth shape;
• generating scan data from a scan of the PSTP outside the mouth of the patient;
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• subsequent to the PSTP being attached to the dental implant installed in the mouth of the patient and gingival tissue surrounding the PSTP being permitted to heal in the mouth of the patient for a healing time period, generating modified scan data from a scan of a physically modified PSTP, the PSTP being physically modified PSTP formed by physically modifying the PSTP in response to gingival healing during the healing time period;
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• manufacturing the permanent prosthesis, based on the physically modified PSTP such that all outer contours of the permanent prosthesis replicate all outer contours of the physically modified PSTP.

A method of manufacturing a permanent prosthesis for attachment to a dental implant installed in a mouth of a patient, the method comprising:

• fabricating a patient specific temporary prosthesis (PSTP), a supragingival portion of the PSTP having a customized anatomical tooth shape;
• subsequent to generating scan data from a scan of the PSTP outside the mouth of the patient, processing the generated scan data;
• subsequent to the PSTP being attached to the dental implant installed in the mouth of the patient and gingival tissue surrounding the PSTP being permitted to heal in the mouth of the patient for a healing time period and generating modified scan data from a scan of a physically modified PSTP formed by physically modifying the PSTP in response to gingival healing during the healing time period, processing the modified scan data;
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• manufacturing the permanent prosthesis based on the physically modified PSTP in the modified scan data such that all outer contours of the permanent prosthesis replicate all outer contours of the physically modified PSTP.