21 patents
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Dentistry tool
2 Jan 24
A drill bit and method for normalizing bone is provided.
Edmund Burke, David Sollberger, Silvio Nussbaumer, Stefan Holst, Hans Geiselhoringer, Antony Quarry, Jorg Weitzel
Filed: 30 Apr 21
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Intraoral OCT with color texture
12 Dec 23
An apparatus for acquiring intraoral images of a subject has an OCT imaging apparatus having an OCT light source, a scanner that conveys OCT light toward the subject and returned from the subject, and an interferometer having a reference arm and a sample arm.
Chuanmao Fan, Victor C. Wong, Jean-Marc Inglese
Filed: 29 Jun 17
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Multi-unit dental assembly with off-axis feature
28 Nov 23
A dental assembly includes a prosthesis having a base and a plurality of artificial teeth, and at least one connecting element coupled to the prosthesis and configured to facilitate coupling of the dental assembly to a patient's oral cavity.
Ines Aravena
Filed: 13 Feb 18
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Dental implant
24 Oct 23
Disclosed herein is a dental implant (1) having a post part (2) which can be placed in a jaw bone and having a structural part (4) associated with said post part, to which structural part a denture piece can be attached, the structural part comprising an integrally molded contact pin (8) which can be placed in an associated shaped recess (10) in the post part (2) with a positive fit, it is to be possible on the one hand to suitably index the implant in a simple and reliable manner, on the other hand a particularly high level of mechanical stability against rotation being ensured, even with an overall height which is kept low.
Holger Zipprich
Filed: 18 Dec 19
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Intra-oral 3-D fluorescence imaging
3 Oct 23
Method and apparatus embodiments can generate a volume fluorescence image of a tooth.
Jean-Marc Inglese, Wei Wang, Victor C. Wong, Guijian Wang, Larry A. Greenspan, Mark Woodman
Filed: 5 Aug 22
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Apparatus for attaching a dental component to a dental implant
22 Aug 23
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus of attaching a dental component having an angulated screw channel to a dental implant.
Adrian Haus, Lars Jörneus, Thomas Fischer, Thomas Eriksson, Mikael Brunell
Filed: 19 Oct 18
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Dynamic dental arch map
16 May 23
Method for automatically assigning numeric labels to teeth in a dental arch map provides a segmented 3D surface image of patient dentition having identified individual teeth and determined tooth position in the dental arch.
Delphine Reynard, Aude Lagardere, Sebastien Henry, Sabrina Capron-Richard, Jean-Pascal Jacob
Filed: 17 Mar 17
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Dental 3D scanner with angular-based shade matching
11 Apr 23
A method for color shade matching obtains a 3D tooth surface representation using an intraoral scanner wherein the 3D tooth surface representation comprises surface data and a spatially resolved angular distribution of color vectors, wherein the spatially resolved angular distribution of color vectors associates one or more point positions from the surface data to the corresponding angular distribution of color vectors.
Yannick Glinec, Victor C. Wong, James R. Milch
Filed: 17 May 19
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Dental implant, insertion tool for dental implant and combination of dental implant and insertion tool
14 Mar 23
A dental implant (1), in particular for insertion into bone tissue of a patient, comprising: a core body (2) having an apical end (4), a coronal end (6), and an outer surface (8) extending along a longitudinal direction between said apical end (4) and said coronal end (6); and at least one thread (12) located on at least a threaded portion of said outer surface (8), should have superior properties regarding primary and secondary stability.
Jorg Weitzel, Antony Quarry, Stephan Vonwiller, Niki Pfister, Edmund Burke, Serif Ameti, David Sollberger, Nicolai Bernhard
Filed: 30 Jan 17
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Screw-retained abutment with off-axis feature and methods of making and using same
24 Jan 23
An abutment is provided with a screw access hole and a slot in its sidewall adapted to allow a driver to access a screw in the screw access hole at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the screw.
Ines Aravena
Filed: 30 Sep 16
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3D intraoral camera using frequency modulation
3 Jan 23
An apparatus for oral imaging has a light source energizable to generate a light frequency signal ranging from a minimum to a maximum frequency.
Chuanmao Fan, Victor C. Wong
Filed: 5 Jan 17
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Automatic intraoral 3D scanner using light sheet active triangulation
20 Dec 22
An intraoral scanning apparatus has a mouthpiece and a transport apparatus that defines at least a first curved track within the mouthpiece.
Chuanmao Fan, Victor C. Wong
Filed: 29 Jun 17
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Extended depth of field intraoral imaging apparatus
15 Nov 22
An apparatus for intraoral imaging has an illumination source that directs light to an object.
Yiyi Guan, Victor C. Wong, James R. Milch
Filed: 17 Mar 21
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Intraoral OCT with compressive sensing
15 Nov 22
A method for acquiring image data obtains, for an intraoral feature, optical coherence tomography (OCT) data in three dimensions wherein at least one dimension is pseudo-randomly or randomly sampled and reconstructs an image volume of the intraoral feature using compressive sensing, wherein data density of the reconstructed image volume is larger than that of the obtained OCT data in the at least one dimension or according to a corresponding transform.
Chuanmao Fan, Victor C. Wong
Filed: 16 May 16
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Adapter for attaching a dental superstructure to a dental implant and dental assembly comprising the adapter
8 Nov 22
The invention relates to an adapter (1, 1′) for attaching a dental superstructure (50) to a dental implant (30).
Adrian Haus
Filed: 14 Jul 16
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Screw retained abutment with off-axis feature and methods of making and using same
1 Nov 22
An abutment is provided with a screw access hole and a slot in its sidewall adapted to allow a driver to access a screw in the screw access hole at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the screw.
Ines Aravena
Filed: 29 Jun 17
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Photo-cleavable primer compositions and methods of use
27 Sep 22
Byung Jun Ahn, Bruce H. Lipshutz, Sam L. Nguyen, Roscoe Linstadt
Filed: 18 May 20
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Method for estimating at least one of shape, position and orientation of a dental restoration
13 Sep 22
A method is provided for obtaining an estimation of the shape, position and/or orientation of one or more existing teeth of a patient or of one or more teeth to be included in a dental restoration destined to replace one or more missing teeth in a partially edentulous patient.
Johannes Keustermans, Pieter Van Leemput, Veerle Wouters, Wouter Mollemans
Filed: 18 Dec 18
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Dental implant
14 Jun 22
The present disclosure provides a dental implant configured to be inserted in a hole in jaw bone and to be at least partially situated in the bone tissue when implanted and includes: a coronal region, an apical region, a longitudinal axis extending from the coronal region of the dental implant to the apical region of the dental implant; an implant surface configured to form an interface between an implant material and the oral environment/surrounding tissue and a surface layer formed on at least part of the implant surface, the surface layer including crystalline titanium oxide in the anatase phase and wherein the surface area roughness Sa and the pore size of the implant surface on which said surface layer is formed increase from the coronal region toward the apical region of the dental implant along the longitudinal axis.
Marcello Memmolo, Jan Hall, Emmanuel De Haller
Filed: 14 Dec 15
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Surface primer compositions and methods of use
7 Jun 22
Byung Jun Ahn, Bruce H. Lipshutz, Sam L. Nguyen
Filed: 18 May 20