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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:

Trophy, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stephane Alric, Paris, FR;

Anna-Sesilia Vlachomitrou, Paris, FR;

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/14 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/145 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/0875 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01);
Abstract

Dental radiographic imaging systems and/or methods for using the same can provide panoramic 2D dental radiographic images. Providing improved panoramic 2D image quality can depend on imaging a desired/selected focal trough, which is itself based on a correct positioning of the patient's head inside the panoramic dental imaging system. Exemplary dental radiographic imaging systems and/or methods for using the same can provide a patient positioning device (e.g., bite stick embodiments) that can position or urge patients to get the right positioning (such as head tilt) to increase probabilities of the improved/best panoramic image reconstruction. Further, certain exemplary bite stick embodiments can repeatedly, consistently and/or correctly position patient after patient for panoramic imaging.


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