The invention concerns a device for obtaining an occlusal registration of a patient; a method for obtaining an occlusal registration of a patient; and a method for dental procedure planning, such as dental implant planning. Radiopaque markers are advantageously applied to improve the devices, methods, and outcomes related to dental procedures.

A bite fork or bite tray device with channels to facilitate flow of impression material through the substrate while held inside a patient's oral cavity to obtain bite registration or impression consisting of full or partial teeth impression or full or partial gum impression or alveolar bone or alveolar process or alveolar ridge or a combination of these. A process for use of the system for prescription or design or manufacture of an appliance by providing the necessary steps.

According to the invention, there are provided a system, a method and a computer program for producing an implant placing guide. According to the invention, the system for producing an implant placing guide, includes: a dental-clinic terminal that transmits, to a managing server, a three-dimensional intraoral image acquired by a CT scan in a state where a guide tray filled with an impression material is inserted into an oral cavity of a patient and that receives an implant-placing-guide processing file from the managing server; a managing server that transmits a plan request signal to one or more preregistered planner terminals when receiving the three-dimensional image from the dental-clinic terminal and that generates an implant-placing-guide processing file by using implant planning information when receiving the implant planning information from a planner terminal that accepts the plan request signal; and a planner terminal that transmits, to the managing server, a signal of whether or not the plan request signal is accepted when the plan request signal is received from the managing server and that receives and transmits implant planning information corresponding to the three-dimensional image to the managing server when receiving the three-dimensional image from the managing server. The guide tray has one or more markers which are used for matching an image of the guide tray and the three-dimensional image and has an impression of a teeth shape of the patient. The implant planning information includes positional information of a guide hole which is formed at the guide tray. According to the invention, a time for producing an implant placing guide is significantly shortened, and thus convenience of a patient remarkably improves.

Disclosed herein is a preliminary guide including an impression resin and a guide tray. The guide tray includes an impression resin accommodation part, a jig fastening part, a protective cover part, and a grip part.

A production system and method of dental instrument. After constructing a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of patient's teeth, pre-processing operations, comprising identifying gum lines on the digital 3D model and adding identifier information to the digital 3D model, are performed on the digital 3D model, and 3D printing is performed on the basis of the identifier information of the digital 3D model to obtain a first dental mold; and a film press processing is performed according to the first dental mold to obtain a second dental mold, identifier identification is performed on the second dental mold, and the identifier information is marked on the second dental mold according to the identification result to obtain a dental appliance. The production system and method are applied to the technical field of dental appliance production.

A system for fabricating a dental restoration to restore a tooth at a restoration site in a dentition of a patient is disclosed. The dentition includes a restoration dental arch and an opposing dental arch. The restoration dental arch include the restoration site and the opposing dental arch is opposite the restoration dental arch. The system includes an impression apparatus, a motion capture apparatus, an interface apparatus, and a restoration design system. The impression apparatus is configured to capture an impression of the dentition of the patient. The motion capture apparatus is configured to capture a plurality of location data points that represent the locations of the opposing dental arch relative to the restoration dental arch. The interference model generation system is configured to generate an interference model for the restoration site. The restoration design system is for designing a restoration using the interference model.

The invention relates to a method for producing a positioning element for fixing a drilling template on a gingiva of a patient's jaw in a position relative to a jawbone of the jaw. The positioning element is configured to fix the drilling template, by means of pressure, which the patient applies to the positioning element by closing the jaw and an opposing jaw, in the position for making implant holes in the jaw for dental implants.

A method of creating a 3-D anatomic digital model for determining a desired location for placing at least one dental implant in a patient's mouth. The method comprises the act of obtaining a first dataset associated with hard tissue of the patient's mouth. The method further comprises the act of obtaining a second dataset associated with soft tissue of the patient's mouth. The method further comprises the act of combining the first dataset and the second dataset to create a detailed structure of hard tissue and soft tissue having variable dimensions over the hard tissue.

Provided is a method for manufacturing a surgical guide, and a crown and an abutment in a mouth for a dental implant, including an operation of obtaining a primarily scanned image through scanning of inner and outer surfaces of a denture which has a first image matching groove matched with a patient's tooth implanting portion and in which a plurality of reference markers are attached to an outside, obtaining a secondarily scanned image through oral scanning of upper and lower jaws while the denture is installed, preliminarily matching the secondarily scanned image with the primarily scanned image, obtaining an integrated scanned image considering a vertical dimension by reversing the first image matching groove so that an image of the first image matching groove is dimensionalized from the primarily scanned image, and obtaining a CT image through CT scanning of the upper and lower jaws.

A system for fabricating a dental restoration to restore a plurality of teeth in a dentition of a patient is described. The dentition includes a restoration dental arch and an opposing dental arch. The restoration dental arch includes a restoration site and the opposing dental arch is opposite the restoration dental arch. The system includes an impression apparatus, a motion capture apparatus, an interference model generation system, and a restoration design system. The impression apparatus is configured to capture an impression of the dentition of the patient. The motion capture apparatus is configured to capture a plurality of location data points that represent the locations of the opposing dental arch relative to the restoration dental arch. The interference model generation system is configured to generate an interference model for the restoration site. The restoration design system is for designing a restoration using the interference model.