Patent ID: 9192505
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A61B,A61C,A61F,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A method of fabricating an oral splint for reduction of an oral fracture in an edentulous or partially edentulous subject or patient, comprising: scanning or imaging a jaw of said subject or patient; importing results of said scanning or imaging into one or more software applications that segments a maxilla and a mandible of said jaw; realigning said fracture within said maxilla or said mandible on said one or more software applications into a normal position; outlining an upper palate of said jaw on said one or more software applications; outlining a lower palate of said jaw on said one or more software applications; interpolating a distance between said outline of said upper palate and said outline of said lower palate on said one or more software applications; indicating said distance as an initial splint configuration on said one or more software applications; removing bone and dentition of said maxilla and said mandible from said image of said jaw on said one or more software applications; and splitting said initial splint configuration into a maxillary splint and a mandibular splint on said one or more software applications, thus forming a virtual image of said oral splint, wherein said oral splint is fabricated physically based on said virtual image of said oral splint.