Patent ID: 9468504
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: A61C

Claim Text:
1. A dental cutting system for cutting a patient's tooth, the system comprising: a) at least one cutting guide having at least one cavity configured to match at least a portion of at least one of a patient's teeth inside a patient's mouth adjacent to or remote from the patient's tooth to be cut without covering the patient's tooth to be cut and exposing the patient's tooth to be cut; b) a plurality of slots in the cutting guide extending from an exterior of the cutting guide into the cutting guide; c) each of the plurality of slots having a cross-sectional shape with a narrower exterior between opposing walls and an enlarged interior with a circular cross-sectional shape; d) a handpiece configured to be held and carrying a cutting tool with a cutting burr configured to cut the patient's tooth; e) a plurality of guide pins attached to and extending from a handle of the handpiece and located remote from and spaced-apart from a head and the cutting burr of the handpiece; f) each of the plurality of guide pins having a narrower neck with a cylindrical shape and an enlarged head with a spherical shape, the cross-sectional shape of the plurality of slots having a size and a shape that matches and mates with a cross-sectional profile of the plurality of guide pins and with the cylindrical shape of the enlarged head matching and mating with the circular cross-sectional shape of the enlarged interior; and g) the plurality of guide pins being slidable in the plurality of slots to guide the cutting burr with respect to the patient's tooth to be cut, the plurality of slots defining a remote cutting path for the cutting burr corresponding to, but remote from, an actual cutting path of the cutting burr on the patient's tooth to be cut, such that displacing the plurality of guide pins along the plurality of slots displaces the cutting burr along the cutting path to cut and shape the patient's tooth to be cut to form a cut tooth in a predetermined shape and size.