Data base, tooth model and restorative item constructed from digitized images of real teeth
First Claim
1. A data base for the storage of data, which comprises dental data concerning universally applicable dentition-specific and/or universally applicable tooth-specific features, characterized in that the dental data illustrate real teeth as images in digitized form and this digitized form also involves universally applicable dentition-specific or tooth-specific features or structural properties, such as sex-specific and/or tooth family-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a data base for the storage of data, which comprises dental data relating to real teeth in the form of digitized images, which digitized images involve universally applicable dentition-specific and/or universally applicable tooth-specific features or structural properties, such as sex-specific and/or tooth family-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics.
It also relates to a tooth model, whose outer and inner surfaces and/or internal structure are specified by means of data from a data base and are displayed on an output device, and, in particular, the data used for this purpose are taken from a data base and are suitably adapted.
The invention also relates to a method of conceiving a tooth model whose external shape and/or internal structure are designed and/or constructed by means of data which represent sex-specific and/or race-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics, wherein the user and/or the client, with the aid of an electronic data processing system, accesses data base(s), combines these data on display means to form an image of a tooth model, and, with the aid of said image of a tooth model, produces the tooth model, whose shape can be processed with the aid of the input and output devices of the electronic data processing system.
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- 1. A data base for the storage of data, which comprises dental data concerning universally applicable dentition-specific and/or universally applicable tooth-specific features, characterized in that the dental data illustrate real teeth as images in digitized form and this digitized form also involves universally applicable dentition-specific or tooth-specific features or structural properties, such as sex-specific and/or tooth family-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics.
- 18. A tooth model, whose outer and inner surfaces and/or internal structure are specified by means of data and are displayed on an output device, characterized in that the data used for this purpose are taken from a data base and that the data are suitably adapted.
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21. A tooth model as defined in any one of the aforementioned claims, characterized in that the tooth model comprises a group of teeth.
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22. A tooth model as defined in any one of the aforementioned claims, characterized in that it com-prises an occlusal surface comprising one or more teeth.
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23. A tooth model as defined in any one of the aforementioned claims, characterized in that the data of the teeth opposite each other during chewing are taken into account.
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26. A method of conceiving a tooth model whose external shape and/or internal structure is designed and/or constructed by means of data which represent sex-specific and/or race-specific and/or biography-specific and/or person-specific characteristics, with or without anomalous characteristics, characterized in that the user and/or the client, with the aid of an electronic data processing system,
accesses said data base, combines these data on display means to form an image of a tooth model, and, with the aid of said image of a tooth model, produces the tooth model, whose shape can be processed with the aid of the input and output devices of the electronic data processing system.
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