Patent ID: 11957506
Assignee: LION GROUP, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. An oral indicator determining device comprising:
an ultrasonic image probe configured to acquire an ultrasonic image of an inside of an attached gingiva of a subject; and
an image processing software configured to analyze the ultrasonic image, the image processing software configured to calculate average brightness of the inside of the attached gingiva from the ultrasonic image, and a determination unit configured to determine an oral indicator by referring to the average brightness and a reference of the oral indicator,
wherein a region of the inside of the attached gingiva is a range from immediately below an epithelium up to 1500 um below the epithelium, and an acquisition range of the ultrasonic image has an area of 0.01 mm2 to 20 mm2.