Patent ID: 7153135
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: A61B,A61C,B33Y

Abstract:
1. A method of making a disposable dentures made of plastic usable in rapid model prototype manufacturing from digital information corresponding to a part of a human oral cavity wherein the digital information is used to generate information for rapid prototyping of the denture, the method further comprising: (a) adding to the digital information, additional digital data selected from archive of digital data, which additional data depicts both an upper and a lower denture and which digital information and said additional digital information is based on image information in a form wherein all of said digital data are viewable as a computer generated composite image; (b) rapid model prototype manufacturing of said dentures using said digital information with the added data to make a matching set of upper and lower dentures wherein the matching set of upper and lower dentures made substantially resembles the digital data viewable as the computer generated composite image; and (c) further including as part of said step of adding to the digital information, the step of processing at least said artificial image data used in producing said dentures using a CAD programmed computer system wherein a style comprising of shape, color, size, and texture is selected.