Method and device for learning and training dental treatment techniques

US8376753B2 · kind B2 · utility

Inventors

• Robert Riener · Vaterstetten, DE
• Rainer Burgkart · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 16, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 16, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B23/283
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and device for learning and training dental treatment techniques, according to which a force is applied to a tooth (2) preferably by means of tools (4) in order to examine or treat this tooth. A mandible (1) or the tooth (2) is coupled to a force measuring device (3) in a manner that enables the forces applied to the tooth (2) to be represented in the form of electric measurement signals (5) that are fed to a data processing device (6). Said data processing device has a data memory (7) in which a multitude of reference force/time courses of different force/time-determined tooth treatment steps can be stored in a manner that enables them to be retrieved, whereby the forces applied to the tooth (2) and their temporal course are compared with a reference force/time course.