Apparatus for making dental replacements
US5383752A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 16, 1992 |
| Grant date | Jan 24, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 16, 2012 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T409/302632
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The method described in this disclosure permits the production of dental replacements, such as inlays, onlays, and crowns, at high accuracy of fit and low cost in a single session of the patient's at the dentist's. For this purpose, a material that hardens is used for making a temporary inlay which provides an impression of the prepared dental cavity. After hardening, this material is removed from the tooth. In a first processing run, a first sensor (7a) does a preliminary scan of the temporary inlay (4) and a first processing tool (30a) is used for preliminary processing of the substrate mass (6). In a second processing run a second sensor (7b) and a second processing tool (30b) are used for a fine scan and fine processing. For this purpose the sensors (7a, 7b) and the processing tools (30a, 30b) are all arranged on a single linear stage (13). The temporary inlay (4) and the substrate mass (6) are attached to holder units (3, 5 ) of a rotation-synchronizer system (10) which in turn is arranged on a slide and elevator system (11, 12).
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