Patent ID: 9579170
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61C,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for creating a personalized digital planning environment for simulation of dental implant placement, the method comprising: providing (i) a digitized representation of an intra-oral surface anatomy of a patient including at least a part of the dental arch, (ii) an at least point-wise digital representation of soft tissue thickness in the region of and around potential dental implant receptor sites, and (iii) a two-dimensional dental X-ray image of the potential dental implant receptor sites, mapping the two-dimensional dental X-ray image of the potential dental implant receptor sites along at least part of a dental arch of the digitized intra-oral surface anatomy, wherein the mapping step comprises indicating corresponding points on the dental X-ray image and on the intra-oral surface anatomy, non-uniform stretching of the X-ray image, and at least one of linear scaling of the X-ray image in the apical-coronal direction of the patient and non-linear scaling of the X-ray image in the horizontal direction, constructing a three-dimensional surface model of the bone at the potential dental implant receptor sites based on the at least point-wise digital representation of soft tissue thickness, and generating a single digital project file comprising at least the digitized representation of the intra-oral surface anatomy of the patient, the mapped two-dimensional dental X-ray image, and the three-dimensional surface model of the bone at the potential dental implant receptor sites.