Abstract:
Procedimiento informatizado para seleccionar un aparato de ortodoncia preferido para utilizarse en un tratamiento de ortodoncia real de un paciente, que comprende: (a) proporcionar (100) un plan de tratamiento virtual que incluye características de por lo menos un aparato de ortodoncia requerido, en el que el por lo menos un aparato de ortodoncia requerido está definido por el plan de tratamiento virtual especificando dichas características; (b) proporcionar (100) un catálogo de aparatos que incluye características de aparatos de ortodoncia disponibles; (c) comparar (120) características de dicho por lo menos un aparato de ortodoncia requerido con características de dichos aparatos de ortodoncia disponibles; y (d) determinar (130) por lo menos uno de dichos aparatos de ortodoncia disponibles que mejor coincide con las características del aparato de ortodoncia requerido.
Abstract:
A method and system are provided for providing patient data useful for dental procedures, including scanning a dental structure of a patient when coupled to a geometric structure to provide a virtual model representative of the coupling and the dental structure, and relating the virtual model to a body reference of the patient.
Abstract:
A 3D virtual model of an intra oral cavity in which at least a part of a finish line of a preparation is obscured is manipulated in virtual space by means of a computer or the like to create, recreate or reconstruct finish line data and other geometrical corresponding to the obscured part. Trimmed virtual models, and trimmed physical models, can then be created utilizing data thus created. The virtual models and/or the physical models may be used in the design and manufacture of copings or of prostheses.
Abstract:
According to the invention, a method and system are provided for scanning, and for facilitating scanning of, an intraoral cavity. The target parts of the intraoral cavity that it is desired to have scanned are identified, and the spatial relationships between a scanning device and the target parts of the intraoral cavity suitable for enabling said target parts to be scanned by said scanning device, are also identified or otherwise determined. These relationships are then displayed, and the displayed relationships are used as a guide for scanning the intraoral cavity.