Patent ID: 9744002
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A61C,B33Y

Claim:
1. A dental template for positioning an object on teeth of a patient, the template comprising: a polymeric shell shaped to fit over a portion of an arch of the teeth of the patient, the shell comprising a first portion shaped to receive a first subset of the teeth of the arch and a second portion shaped to receive a second subset of the teeth of the arch, the first portion comprising one or more tooth receiving cavities having occlusal or incisal geometries corresponding to occlusal or incisal tooth geometries of the first subset of the teeth, and the second portion comprising a planar occlusion portion spanning the second subset of the teeth, the planar occlusion portion having a continuous planar geometry comprising a reduced number of occlusal features relative to a number of occlusal features of the second subset of the teeth.