Gc Corporation

Tatsuru Doumoto

Yuki Sakamoto

Kenichi Iiyama

Yoshinori Matsuda

Yoshinori Ebihara

To remove an undercut part from three-dimensional data of the inner face, the program includes a surface model creating means to create a surface model based on three-dimensional data of a gypsum model including an abutment tooth, a cutting direction specifying means to specify a direction of a cutting bar, and a surface model creating means to create a surface model for machining by changing the three-dimensional data to have new coordinates by determining a base axis in parallel with the cutting bar in the surface model and plane moving coordinates of the cutting bar, and converting the coordinates of a point which becomes an undercut part, to be equal to the plane moving coordinates of a point having a high height from a specified face rectangular to the base axis at the opposite side of the occlusion face and a long distance from the base axis.

Program to make of cutting data for inner face of dental prosthesis

A measuring center stores three-dimensional coordinate information of an intra-oral shape measured by impression taking as a digital signal. The measuring center sends the obtained measured data to a design center using communication apparatus. The design center reproduces the intra-oral shape on a graphic display device based on the received measuring data as a three-dimensional graphic, designs a shape of a dental prosthesis and stores it as a digital signal. The processing center transmits the received design data to a milling processor as a processing command and subjects a block material to milling processing to prepare a dental prosthesis.

Process for preparing dental prosthesis

To prepare a dental prosthesis that has a shape exactly the same as in the form at the time of sound state, with superior intra-oral fitness precision, a process for preparing a dental prosthesis utilizing a CAD/CAM system includes subjecting three-dimensional coordinate information of an intra-oral shape measured by impression taking or by photographing within an oral cavity of a patient, to three-dimensional graphic display on a graphic display device and designing a dental prosthesis on the three-dimensional graphic, wherein three-dimensional coordinate information of a previously preserved intra-oral shape of a patient at the time of sound state is subjected to graphic display simultaneously on the graphic display device; the dental prosthesis of an objective tooth is designed so as to have a shape same as the shape at the time of sound state; the obtained design data of the dental prosthesis is transmitted to a milling processor as a processing command; and a block material is subjected to milling processing to prepare a dental prosthesis.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuru Doumoto