Patent ID: 9301814
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A61B,A61C,G16B,G16H,G16Z

Claim Text:
1. A method for building a digital model of a patient's jaw with a reconstructed tooth occlusal surface image, comprising: (a) creating a digitized jaw image from a scan of at least a portion of the patient's jaw, the digitized jaw image including a first digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface; (b) creating a digitized bite image from a scan of at least a portion of the patient's jaw in a bite configuration, the digitized bite image including a second digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface; (c) matching the digitized jaw image with the digitized bite image; (d) comparing the first and second digitized images of the tooth occlusal surface; and (e) if the comparison of the first and second digitized images of the tooth occlusal surface indicates at least one of missing image data and distortion in the first digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface, digitally correcting the first digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface by reconstructing any missing image data and reducing any distortion in the first digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface using image data from the second digitized image of the tooth occlusal surface.