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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2023
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Sergey Nikolskiy, Coto de Caza, CA (US);
Fedor Chelnokov, Khimki, RU;
James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of processing a digital dental impression includes determining one or more first digital surface regions visible from a first side of the digital dental impression along an occlusion axis and one or more second digital surface regions visible from a second side of the digital dental impression along the occlusion axis, segmenting the digital dental impression into one or more digital segments and determining the one or more digital segments as a first digital segment or a second digital segment based on the majority of digital surface regions in the one or more digital segments.