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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
James P. Kennedy, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ;
Abstract
Methods and systems for developing a dental bridge through computer-aided design are shown and described. With reference to an image of the volume to fill with the bridge, a proposed dental bridge is shaped to fit between teeth adjacent to the volume to fill while being contoured to a profile line specifying the gum contour and the contour of surfaces of the adjacent teeth to be bonded. Retainers of the proposed bridge are shaped and positioned to abut the adjacent teeth. The data specifying the proposed bridge may be delivered to a milling machine where a blank is milled into the corresponding bridge. The bridge may then be installed by bonding the retainers to the adjacent teeth.