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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:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2003
Applicants:
Günter Saliger, Bensheim, DE;
Bernd Rothenberger, Gernsbach, DE;
Reinhard Pieper, Bensheim, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sirona Dental Systems GmbH, Bensheim, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for automatically creating a dental superstructure for joining to an implant based on a digital model description of the shape. To this end: the actual clinical situation or an arranged clinical situation of the implant () is recorded in the form of digital data; this situation is analyzed; the implant axis () is determined; the optimal shape of the superstructure () is calculated while taking a set of structural rules into account, and; a production machine is used for producing the individual parts from at least one blank () based on the digital data.