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7601000 |
Facial plane indicator
A device for determining the position of at least one of a dental patient's dental midline and incisal plane relative to the patient's facial midline. The device includes an impression/bite tray...
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7544060 |
Dental device for registration of midline and horizontal plane
The dental device of the present invention is used to transfer information about registration of an anterior midline between central incisors and a horizontal plane of the teeth after the teeth...
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7520281 |
Fixed therapeutic oral appliance
An oral appliance having upper and lower channel elements attached, respectively, to upper and lower bite blocks. The two channel elements are oriented at a right angle with respect to each other....
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7503763 |
In-mouth cavity tracing device
A tracing device for use in the mouth cavity can include an upper jaw plate, a lower jaw plate, and a coupling tool that connects the above jaw plates. The upper jaw plate can be provided with a...
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7300280 |
Dental device for recording the position of the jaws of a patient in relation to one another by means of recording plates
The invention comprises a pair of one-piece, flat recording plates that are mirror symmetric about a sagittal plane S, or which an upper part ( 200 ), which is provided with a stylus ( 202 ), can...
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7292716 |
Medical simulation apparatus and method for controlling 3-dimensional image display in the medical simulation apparatus
A medical simulation apparatus is provided, which is capable of performing a simulation by correlating a three-dimensional image with an entity model. Coordinates of measurement marks MP 1 , MP 2...
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7288075 |
Methods and devices utilizing rheological materials
Impression devices are provided for making an impression of a desired feature. The impression devices include: a flexible bladder having a cavity formed therein, the flexible bladder being capable...
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7182598 |
Dental bite configuration recording device
A dental bite configuration recording device comprises an upper base, a lower base, a first biting portion, a second biting portion, and a movable guiding portion. After the user's lower jaw moves...
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7128574 |
Dental alignment instrument
A handheld dental instrument has a horizontal level indicator and a vertical midline angle marker pin mounted on a bite line plate. The bite line plate has an arcuate front and a pair of protruding...
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7118375 |
Method and system for dental model occlusal determination using a replicate bite registration impression
Systems and methods for imaging a dental occlusal registration impression; developing a digital 3D surface contour model of the occlusal registration impression from the image data; electronically...
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6726479 |
Method and apparatus to assist in orthognathic surgery
A method and apparatus to assist in accurate placement of teeth and jaws at orthognathic surgery. A recording of reference planes used prior to surgery to plan desired changes to an original...
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6664986 |
Computer user interface for orthodontic use
In a computer system that includes a Central Processing Unit and an associated input device, storage device and display device, a method for displaying on the display device a virtual...
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6584341 |
Method and apparatus for detection of defects in teeth
There is provided a metrologic methodology and instrument, useful for a high-spatial-resolution dynamic diagnostic metrology and instrument, which can provide simultaneous measurements of...
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6582931 |
Dento-facial analyzer
A face bow assembly including a face bow having a bite fork portion to carry an index trays to be positioned in a patient's mouth. The bow has outwardly extending wings to enable a dentist to...
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6488638 |
Dental instrument assembly
A dental instrument assembly includes a motion-tracking hexapod including a plurality of telescoping members each connected at one end to a first frame and at an opposite end to a second frame and...
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6422864 |
Facial registration tool
A facial registration tool for use in the fabrication of dental prostheses includes two or more interconnected artificial teeth and a retention means extending posteriorly from the lingual surface...
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6287119 |
Method of manufacturing a prosthesis to be fixed to implants in the jawbone of a patient, and a system for manufacturing such prostheses
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a prosthesis to be fixed to a plurality of implants in the jawbone of a patient. The method has as a characteristic feature that by means of at...
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6224373 |
Simulation method for visualizing density of jawbone for dental implantation
A simulation method and a computer readable medium therefor visualize in three dimensions the density of a jawbone at an implant area where an implant screw contacts the jawbone using information...
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6152730 |
Bite registration tracing appliance with movable lower wing
A bite registration appliance includes an upper base plate and a two-piece lower plate, one carrying a tracing stylus and the other carrying a tracing plate, for making a Gothic arch tracing in a...
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6109917 |
System for establishing a reference plane for dental casts
Dental apparatus which can determine a patient-specific reference plane so that the patient's teeth can be aesthetically oriented to an aesthetic axis-horizontal reference plane. The apparatus...
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6106285 |
Apparatus for tracing centric relation of mandible
Disclosed is an apparatus for tracing a centric relation of a mandible including a stylus arranged at a point, where an occlusal plane and a mid-sagittal plane cross a line extending between...
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6089864 |
Bio-feedback, data acquisition teeth guards, methods of their manufacture and use
A diagnostic and therapeutic apparatus for use in the evaluation, detection, and treatment of humans that suffer from chronic grinding of the teeth known as "bruxing." The apparatus includes a...
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5971756 |
Method and apparatus for creating patterns for dentures
This invention consists of a method and apparatus which establish specific central and vertical dimensions and positions for patterns for the making of dentures which will provide a natural...
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5954673 |
Method and apparatus for oral motor therapy using a visual display
A method for determining muscle strength of elements of the musculature used in speech and swallowing. In particular, a tool is equipped with at least one pressure sensor. A person inserts the tool...
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5911576 |
Measurement device for quantifying the severity of bruxism
A bruxism monitoring device comprising a thin shell formed to the shape of and elastically retained to one or more teeth, said shell further comprising: a plurality of layers having mutually...
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5810586 |
Method and apparatus for determining placement of patterns for dentures
This invention consists of a method and apparatus for making patterns which establish the specific vertical dimensions and positions for patterns for the making of dentures which will provide a...
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5752832 |
Method and apparatus for measuring tooth tightness
According to the present invention there is provided an instrument for measuring the tightness between a first and a second contiguous bodies, the first body being movable with relation to the...
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5752827 |
Periodontal examination apparatus and method of use
A periodontal examination data recording and recall method and apparatus. The periodontal examination method includes obtaining an automated periodontal examination data recording and recall...
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5632619 |
Jaw articulator and face bow with bite-fork column
A face bow for receiving and transferring a model jaw to a jaw articulator in the correct spacial orientation relative to a patient's skull and jaw hinge axis. The face bow has a curved transfer...
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5605459 |
Method of and apparatus for making a dental set-up model
A method of and an apparatus for making a dental set-up model utilizable in the practice of orthodontics and, more particularly, to facilitation of making the dental set-up model. The shape of an...
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5588430 |
Repeat fixation for frameless stereotactic procedure
Repeat fixation for medical procedures is accomplished using a non-invasive locator, specifically a bite plate. The bite plate has at least three fiducial markers on it. The fiducial markers may be...
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5401170 |
Measuring device and measuring method of implant structure
In a measuring technique used to restore a tooth with an employment of an implant structure, it is desirable to precisely determine the direction and position of bonding points in which a...
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5395239 |
Occlusion pressure detecting sheet
A pressure-sensitive recording sheet, comprising: a synthetic resin support sheet; a color developer layer coated on one face of the support sheet; a color former layer overcoated on the color...
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5342202 |
Method for modelling cranio-facial architecture
Process for modelling cranio-facial architecture on the basis of a lateral cephalometric X-ray by determining bony points and plotting analysis lines, measuring the angles and comparing them with...
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5318441 |
Method of cephalometric evaluation of dental radiographs
A method for cephalometric evaluation includes steps of generating radiographic, X-ray or other image of a patient's individual orthodontic structure, positioning this image in alignment with a...
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5278756 |
Method and apparatus for generating cephalometric images
A method and apparatus for generating a cephalometric tracing directly from a patient by directly generating digitized two- or three-dimensional data from the patient's head to define locations of...
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5266030 |
Method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis
A method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis, wherein the shape of the prepared part of the teeth in question is established by scanning at least a part of the teeth, or a replica thereof, by...
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5188529 |
Device for static fixation of the jaw relation
For static fixation of the jaw relation in intraoral recording, a recording instrument set is used that includes a pin holder with a vertically adjustable stylus for placement in one jaw, and a...
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5176515 |
Dental treatment method and apparatus
A characteristic of optimal facial harmony is a correlation of the A/P (Anterior/Posterior) position of the maxillary incisors with the forehead. When the forehead is canted about 7 degrees or...
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5163841 |
Correcting articulation defect in dentate human jaw
A model of a maxilla is marked with the location of the patient's lip line and with the location of the patient's ear-nose plane. Then the incisor portion of the model is shaped to have a lower...
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5154609 |
Instrument for registration of the dental bite
The present invention provides for an apparatus and method for registration of the dental bite of a patient. An impression plate is provided for insertion into the patient's mouth and incorporates...
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5069619 |
Dental impression tray with level indicator
A dental impression tray or bite registration tray or the like is provided with a level indicator to indicate patient bite angle. When the impression tray or the like is placed into the mouth of a...
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5044950 |
Therapeutic training device and method for fitting dentures
A training device for therapeutically exercising a protruding mandible of an edentulous individual to reposition the same to an optimal position. The training device is part of a total system for...
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5028232 |
Apparatus and method for calibrating physiologic dental occlusion and determining optimal individual orthodontic appliance prescription
A dental system for determining optimal orthodontic appliance prescription prior to initiation and implementation of orthodontic treatment. The system provides for measuring the pre-treatment...
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5007830 |
Device for determining the occlusal plane
A device for determining an occlusal plane for making dental prostheses includes two horizontally pivotable members arranged to be brought in alignment with an ear-nose plane, and a further member...
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4981437 |
Method and apparatus for constructing dentures
A method for constructing dentures which completely accommodate a patient's mandibular movements is provided. The method includes the steps of mounting a three dimensional recording device to the...
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4932867 |
Device and process for determining jaws position
A device for determining optimum jaws position when full denture is prepared, comprising a height adjustable means to be inserted between upper and lower jaws and a means for detecting and...
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4856993 |
Pressure and contact sensor system for measuring dental occlusion
A contact sensor for detecting points on a grid where the sensor is being contacted on opposing sides by teeth surfaces or other contacting points. The sensor is especially useful for measuring...
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4734034 |
Contact sensor for measuring dental occlusion
A contact sensor for detecting points on a grid where the sensor is being contacted on opposing sides by teeth surfaces or other contacting points. The contact sensor includes two sets of parallel...
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4726768 |
Plaster dam for mounting dental casts
A strip of stiff paper is wrapped around the edge of a dental cast mounting plate of a dental articulator toserve as a dam for confining moist plaster used for mounting a dental cast to the plate....
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