Patent ID: 6361318
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
Method for producing an elongate support element with associated seats for a replacement structure in a human body part, said seats enabling the support element to be applied to implants or to spacers on said implants, wherein longitudinal axes of the seats connect with or are parallel to longitudinal axes of the implants in order to satisfy set accuracy of fit requirements, the method comprising the steps of:a) at least one of identifying and modeling a dental situation; b) supplying information extracted from step a) to computer equipment; c) operating the computer equipment to use the supplied information to simulate and determine a structure of the support element in or at the replacement structure; d) extracting, from the computer equipment, milling coordinates information for controlling the milling of a blank in milling equipment; e) transmitting the milling coordinates information to the milling equipment, and f) controlling the milling equipment using said milling coordinates information to produce the support element from the blank; wherein: g) the milling equipment, using said milling coordinates information, in addition to milling the support element shape determined in the computer equipment from the blank, is controlled to mill out said seats directly from the blank/support element material.