Abstract:
Disclosed is a 3D scanner system for detecting and/or visualizing cariogenic regions in teeth based on fluorescence emitted from said teeth, said 3D scanner system comprising data processing means configured for mapping a representation of fluorescence emitted from the teeth onto the corresponding portion of a digital 3D representation of the teeth to provide a combined digital 3D representation.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of virtually designing a customized healing abutment and a drill guide for a patient, where the method comprises: - obtaining a CT scan comprising at least part of the patient's jaw bone; - virtually placing at least one implant relative to the jaw bone of the CT scan, such that a planned implant placement is defined; - virtually designing: - a drill guide for guiding the surgical drilling of a bore for the implant into the patient's jaw bone at the planned implant placement; and - a customized healing abutment configured for shaping the soft tissue according to a target profile when arranged in the implant; where the design of the drill guide and of the customized healing abutment is at least partly based on the CT scan and on the planned implant placement.
Abstract:
A method and a 3D guiding system for providing a guided relative movement of a first object and a second object, and can e.g. be used to guide a tool in dental or surgical applications. The 3D guiding system is arranged in relation to the first object which may be a surgical tool, and the guiding system comprises a 3D scanner for performing a 3D scanning of the second object, which may be a patient. The method of using the guiding system comprises obtaining the second object and a 3D model of the second object, and deriving from the 3D model a first preferred relative arrangement between the first and second objects. Hereafter is performed a movement procedure comprising: -3D scanning a region of the second object using the scanner and determining a present relative arrangement of the first and second objects from a result of the scanning, -calculating information for guiding the relative movement of the first and second objects towards the first preferred relative arrangement from the present relative arrangement, and -providing a relative movement of the first and second objects towards the first preferred relative arrangement, where the calculated information is used for guiding the relative movement. An advantage of the invention is that the present relative arrangement is determined without an external localization device.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system and a method for proving a model of a superstructure (307) joining a denture (301) and a corresponding dental arch, the method comprising the steps of: - obtaining a first 3D representation of at least a part of a preliminary model of the denture (307), - obtaining a second 3D representation of at least a part of the dental arch comprising dental implants (308), and - generating a model of a superstructure based on the first 3D representation, the second representation, dental implant positions and dental implant orientations.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to tools in a system for the design of customized three- dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks,. Moreover, the invention relates to a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to adaptive 3D scanning wherein a scan sequence for obtaining full geometrical coverage of a physical object are created automatically and specifically for the physical object, by using a method and a system for producing a 3D computer model of a physical object, wherein the method comprises the following steps providing a scanner system, said scanner system comprising a scanner, and a computer connectable to and/or integrated in said scanner, said computer comprising a virtual model of said scanner, entering shape information of the physical object into the computer, creating in said computer a visibility function based on said virtual model and the shape information, said visibility function being capable of evaluating the coverage of areas of interest of the physical object by at least one predetermined scan sequence, establishing at least one scan sequence based on the evaluation of the visibility function, performing a scan of the physical object using said at least one scan sequence, and obtaining a 3D computer model of the physical object.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an intraoral scanning system that includes a housing and a sleeve. The housing includes optical components, a head, and a defogging unit that includes a heating unit. The head includes a primary aperture and is configured to be inserted into an oral cavity of a patient. The sleeve includes a secondary optical component arranged at a secondary aperture that is configured to be positioned in alignment with the primary aperture when the sleeve is coupled with the housing. The heating unit is configured to generate heat in response to application of electrical power to the heating unit. When the sleeve is coupled with the housing, the secondary optical component is configured to be arranged such that the generated heat is transferred from the heating unit to the secondary optical component through thermal conduction between the heating unit and secondary optical component.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of storing information in a mesh, comprising tessellating a plurality of input patches of the mesh, serializing vertices of the tessellated input patches, calculating a value for each vertex, serializing the values according to the serialization of the vertices; and storing the serialized values.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method for determining the position and/or orientation of at least one sensor system relative to the base structure of a scanning system during scanning of an object, the method comprising: obtaining one or more tracking images using one or more cameras, where the cameras are in a fixed position with respect to the sensor system; and determining from the one or more tracking images the position and/or orientation of the sensor system relative to the base structure at a given time.
Abstract:
Disclosed is method, a user interface, a computer program product and a system for predicting future development of a dental condition of a patient's set of teeth, wherein the method comprises: ‐ obtaining two or more digital 3D representations for the teeth recorded at different points in time; ‐ deriving based on the obtained digital 3D representations a formula expressing the development of the dental condition in terms of at least one parameter as a function of time; and ‐ predicting the future development of the condition based on the derived formula.