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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Duane Milford Durbin, San Diego, CA (US);
Dennis Arthur Durbin, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 5/00 ;
Abstract
A system optically images a dental structure within an oral cavity. The system includes an intra-oral track adapted to be inserted inside the oral cavity; an image aperture movably coupled to the intra-oral track and adapted to capture one or more images of the dental structure; and an image processor coupled to the image aperture to generate a three-dimensional (3D) model of the dental structure based on the images captured by the image aperture.