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Method for making custom dental impression trays

US4401616A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 19, 1981
Grant dateAug 30, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 19, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61C9/0006
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A flat uniform thickness or flat sheet of thermoplastic material is heated to deformable, nonresilient, nonliquid condition, shaped over a built-up study model of the jaw ridge of a patient requiring a dental prosthesis and cooled to substantially rigid condition to form a custom dental impression tray.

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