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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carlino Panzera, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Richard A Brightly, Westwood, NJ (US);
Lisa M DiMeglio, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Jana Pruden, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Assignee:
American Thermocraft Corporation, Somerset, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
433223 ; 4332121 ;
Abstract
A method of making a dental porcelain restoration comprises providing a soft-sintered dental porcelain pellet; milling the soft-sintered pellet under the control of a CAD/CAM system to provide a tooth structure; investing the tooth structure with an investment refractory material to provide an invested tooth structure; fusing the invested tooth structure; and removing the investment refractory material from the fused tooth structure to provide the dental restoration.