Patent ID: 8167617

Claim:
A system for a dental superstructure to be attached to an implant using a digital model description of a shape of the dental superstructure, the dental superstructure including first and second elements, the system comprising: an analyzing unit that analyzes a recorded real clinical situation or shaped clinical situation of the implant as digital data, and determines an implant axis and an insertion axis; a computing unit that computes a shape of the dental superstructure based at least in part on the determined implant axis; a generating unit that generates digital data representing the shape of the dental superstructure; and a separating unit that automatically separates the computed shape of the dental superstructure into first digital data representing a shape of the first element to be connected to the implant and second digital data representing a shape of the second element to be connected to the first element, the shape of the first element being optimized, at least in part, based on a tilt angle between the determined implant axis and the determined insertion axis.