DENTAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LINKING PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL DATA FOR DIAGNOSTIC, TREATMENT PLANNING, PATIENT EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, MANUFACTURING, AND DATA TRANSFER PURPOSES
First Claim
1. In a dental device for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
- a scaled and shaped linking component including an elongate fastening connector component and a shaped imaging/scaling marker component made at least partially of a radio opaque material,wherein the marker component is engageable with the elongate fastening connector component allowing at least one of a surface imaging scanning and a tomography imaging scanning of the at least one linking component creating an identifiable imaging scan data link.
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Abstract
A dental device and/or process include at least one scaled and shaped linking component to be supported by a dental model or an imaging template. The process includes scaling, aligning, and orienting data from different data acquisition sources with the scaled and shaped linking component, and combining the data from different data acquisition sources into a master data file. A method of making the diagnostic model can include virtually designing an imaging template including at least one linking component made at least partially of a radio opaque material, and three-dimensionally printing the virtually designed template. The diagnostic model can include at least one of an exposed bone structure portion, a removable gum tissue portion, a removable bone structure portion, a visualization portion illustrating a root, bone density, an internal bone structure, a nerve channel, a nerve ending, a sinus cavity, a blood vessel, an artery, and diagnostic teeth.
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40 Claims
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1. In a dental device for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
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a scaled and shaped linking component including an elongate fastening connector component and a shaped imaging/scaling marker component made at least partially of a radio opaque material, wherein the marker component is engageable with the elongate fastening connector component allowing at least one of a surface imaging scanning and a tomography imaging scanning of the at least one linking component creating an identifiable imaging scan data link. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. In a dental device for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
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a linkable model; and at least one scaled and shaped linking component selectively supported by the linkable model allowing surface imaging of the linkable model and the linking component to create an identifiable imaging scan data link. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a dental device for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
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a linkable imaging template; and at least one scaled and shaped linking component made at least partially of a radio opaque material and supported by the linkable imaging template, wherein the imaging template is linkable to a linkable model allowing a tomography imaging scan of the patient to create an identifiable imaging scan data link. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A process for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
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scaling, orienting and aligning data from at least one data acquisition source based on imaging of at least one scaled and shaped linking component made at least partially of a radio opaque material existing in the data from the at least one data acquisition source; and linking the scaled, oriented, and aligned data from the at least one data acquisition source into a master data file.
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16. In a dental device for performing a dental procedure relating to replacement of teeth including a particular mouth formation of a patient and an intended dental implant location with respect to the patient, the improvement comprising:
a diagnostic model formed with computer aided manufacturing using a master data file including linked, scaled, oriented, and aligned data from at least one data acquisition source and including at least one visualization portion of detailed bone/tissue anatomy formed on the diagnostic model selected from a group comprising at least a subset of an exposed bone structure portion, a removable gum tissue portion, a removable bone structure portion, a root of a tooth, a root section contour of a tooth, a bone density, an internal bone structure, a nerve channel, a major nerve, a major nerve ending, a tooth nerve, a tooth nerve ending, a tooth blood vessel, a tooth root canal, a tooth pulp canal, a blood vessel, an artery, and a sinus cavity.
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24. A dental device defining a positive likeness of part of an oral cavity of a particular patient for constructing a finished dental prosthesis for use in at least one procedure selected from a group comprising a diagnosis, a therapeutic treatment planning, and a surgery relating to a human being, the dental device comprising:
a diagnostic model with at least one visualization portion of detailed bone/tissue anatomy formed on the diagnostic model selected from a group comprising an exposed bone structure portion, a removable gum tissue portion, a removable bone structure portion, a root of a tooth, a root section contour of a tooth, a bone density, an internal bone structure, a nerve channel, a major nerve, a major nerve ending, a tooth nerve, a tooth nerve ending, a tooth blood vessel, a tooth root canal, a tooth pulp canal, a blood vessel, an artery, and a sinus cavity. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
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30. A system for performing a dental procedure related to dental implants comprising:
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a model having at least one marker; a template formed of the model, the template including at least one corresponding marker that corresponds to the at least one marker of the model; and a tomography scan of a patient'"'"'s mouth including the template, wherein the at least one marker and the at least one corresponding marker are used to orient and verify data from the tomography scan. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A dental device comprising:
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a physical diagnostic model designed using data collected from a plurality of data sources, the data sources including a surface scan representing a patient'"'"'s mouth and a tomography scan of the mouth; wherein the data from the plurality of data sources is combined using a common reference point. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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