Abstract:
Disclosed is a method of virtually designing a reduced shape of at least one artificial tooth adapted to be inserted in a denture for a patient, where the artificial tooth is configured to be provided as a physical artificial tooth and as a corresponding virtual artificial tooth, where the artificial tooth is configured to have an original shape, and where the denture is configured to comprise physical artificial teeth and an artificial gingival, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a 3D digital representation of at least part of the patient's oral cavity; virtually designing the denture by virtually designing the artificial gingival and the placement of the artificial teeth in the artificial gingival based on the 3D digital representation of at least part of the patient's oral cavity; virtually designing a reduced shape of the artificial tooth; virtually determining the part of the artificial tooth to be cut away by milling in a milling machine based on the difference between the original shape of the artificial tooth and the virtually designed reduced shape of the artificial tooth; and where the physical artificial tooth is configured to be placed in a milling fixture, such that the arrangement of the physical artificial tooth relative to the milling fixture is known, whereby the determined part of the physical artificial tooth is configured to be cut away by milling in the milling machine, thereby obtaining a reduced physical artificial tooth.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for modeling a digital design of a denture for a patient, said denture comprising a gingival part and a teeth part comprising a set of denture teeth, where the method comprises: - obtaining a digital 3D representation of the patient's gum; - obtaining virtual teeth models corresponding to the denture teeth; - virtually arranging the virtual teeth models in relation to the digital 3D representation of the patient's gum; and - generating a virtual outer gingival surface of the gingival part of the denture
Abstract:
Disclosed is a dental prosthesis comprising an implant, a customised abutment, a restoration and an implant screw for securing the customised abutment to the implant, wherein the implant comprises a screw bore extending from a first end of the implant for receiving at last a part of the implant screw, the customised abutment comprises a through-going bore for receiving at least a part of the implant screw, the screw bore and the through- going bore are coaxially aligned along an implant axis when the implant screw is arranged in the screw and through-going bore, the abutment comprises a customised abutment base and a customised abutment top where the customised abutment base and the customised abutment top defines an assembly axis along which they were assembled during manufacturing, where the implant axis is different from the assembly axis.
Abstract:
Disclosed is method for generating a dental preparation guide configured for validating the preparation of at least one tooth for a dental restoration, said method comprising: a: obtaining a digital 3D representation of a pre-prepared set of teeth; b: virtually removing said at least one tooth from the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth, such that a digital 3D representation of a remaining set of teeth is formed; c: providing a virtual target dental restoration expressing a target shape of the dental restoration; d: creating a virtual validation surface for the dental preparation guide based on the virtual target dental restoration, where the validation surface is such that the preparation of the tooth can be validated by the dental preparation guide; and e: creating a virtual preparation guide surface by combining the virtual validation surface and at least part of the surface of the digital 3D representation of the remaining set of teeth.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for virtually designing the attachment of a manufactured dental model of a patient's set of teeth in a physical dental articulator by means of one or more kinds of spacer elements, where the method comprises: - obtaining a virtual 3D dental model of the patient's set of teeth, where the virtual 3D dental model is provided by means of 3D scanning; - providing a virtual dental articulator type corresponding to a physical dental articulator, where the dental articulator comprises an upper arm and a lower arm and has a known articulator height, which is the distance between the upper arm and the lower arm in the static position of the dental articulator; - providing a minimum height of the dental model, where the height of the dental model is the height of an upper part and the height of a lower part of the dental model; - providing one or more kinds of virtual spacer elements with predetermined heights, where each kind of virtual spacer element corresponds to a physical spacer element; - determining a manufacture height of the dental model and determining the number of each of the kinds of spacer elements to be used for the attachment of the manufactured dental model in the physical articulator, such that the manufacture height of the dental model and the total effective spacer element height, which is the added height of the determined spacer elements, equal the articulator height, and where the manufacture height of the dental model is not less than the minimum height of the dental model.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for compensating for motion blur when performing a 3D scanning of at least a part of an object by means of a 3D scanner, where the motion blur occurs because the scanner and the object are moved relative to each other while the scanning is performed, and where the motion blur compensation comprises : - determining whether there is a relative motion between the scanner and the object during the acquisition of the sequence of focus plane images; - if a relative motion is determined, performing a motion compensation based on the determined motion; and - generating a 3D surface from the sequence of focus plane images.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a scanner (200) for obtaining and/or measuring a 3D geometry of at least a part of a surface of an object (290), said scanner comprising: - a first camera (230) comprising an array of sensor elements, - a first means (210) for generating a probe light, - means (240) for transmitting the probe light rays towards the object thereby illuminating at least a part of the object (290), - means (240) for transmitting light rays returned from the object to the array of sensor elements, - a first optical system (240) for imaging with a first depth of field on the first camera (230) at least part of the transmitted light rays returned from the object to the array of sensor elements, - means for varying the position of the focus plane on the object, - means (310) for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, - means for determining the in-focus position(s) of: - each of a plurality of the sensor elements for a range of focus plane positions, or - each of a plurality of groups of the sensor elements for a range of focus plane positions, and - means for transforming the in-focus data into 3D coordinates.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for designing at least one telescopic double crown for a patient comprising an internal crown and an external crown, where the internal crown is defined as a primary part and the external crown is defined as a secondary removable part, wherein the method comprises the steps of: -providing a 3D scan of the patients teeth; -virtually designing the primary part; -virtually designing the secondary part; and - automatically generating the external surface of the primary part and the internal surface of the secondary part to have matching shapes, where at least a region of the external surface of the primary part and the corresponding region of the internal surface of the secondary part are substantially straight having the same well-defined angle.
Abstract:
3D modeling of an object using textural features. Disclosed is a method and a system (720) for 3D modeling of a 3D object (724) adapted to be inserted in or worn by a patient. The 3D modeling applies information of one or more features from an acquired 2D digital representation comprising textural data of the location where the 3D object (724) is adapted to be arranged.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of designing a number of dental restorations for a patient, wherein the method comprises: - selecting a composed set of teeth (501) comprising a number of teeth, where the number of teeth are arranged spatially relative to each other forming a high aesthetic composition; -applying the composed set of teeth (501) to a virtual three dimensional representation of the patient's present oral situation (502) to obtain an initial set of teeth (503); -optionally modifying one or more parameters of one or more of the teeth in the initial set of teeth 503) to obtain a finalized set of teeth.