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

Claim 7:
8. A method of selecting a gum care method, the method comprising:
using a measurement probe, acquiring ultrasonic images of an inside of an attached gingiva of a subject before and after gum care, for each kind of gum care;
acquiring an average brightness of a region of the inside of the attached gingiva change before and after care for each kind of gum care, from the ultrasonic images; and
selecting a gum care method with the average brightness increase before and after care among the average brightness changes before and after care for each kind of gum care,
wherein the region of the inside of the attached gingiva is a range from immediately below an epithelium to 1500 um below the epithelium, and an acquisition range of the ultrasonic images has an area of 0.01 mm2 to 20 mm2.