Patent ID: 8747114

Claim:
A method for producing a temporary tooth crown or bridge comprising the following steps: (a) creating a transparent or translucent dental tray or an impression of at least one untreated tooth using an impression tray; (b) filling the dental tray or impression with a dental material and repositioning the dental tray or impression on at least one intra-oral ground-down tooth; (c) curing the dental material within the dental tray or impression with light in a first exposure step until the dental material reaches an elastically deformable phase defined by a modulus of elasticity of the dental material measured analogous to ISO 10477 between 1 MPa and 50 MPa; (d) conducting extraoral adaptation or working of the dental material while in the elastically deformable phase, an (e) curing the dental material with light on at least one ground-down tooth or tooth model until the dental material reaches a cured phase to form the temporary tooth crown or bridge; and (f) detaching the temporary tooth crown or bridge from the transparent or translucent dental tray or impression after production and fixing the temporary crown or bridge to a tooth stump or adjacent teeth; wherein before the first exposure step, the dental material has a plastically deformable phase with a viscosity between 10 and 100,000 Pas or a consistency measured analogous to ISO 4823 between 50 and 15 mm.