Patent ID: 8801435

Claim:
A scanbody for detecting the position and orientation of a dental implant comprising a bottom section capable of being connected to the implant, a three-dimensional scannable region having an asymmetrical geometry permitting unequivocal detection of a surface thereof from different scanning directions in relation to a longitudinal center axis of said scanbody, and a transition region between said bottom section and said scannable region, the transition region being separate from said bottom section and separate from said scannable region, and said scannable region having a plurality of scannable contoured sections which are distributed around a periphery of said scannable region and which protrude outwardly radially beyond an external contour of said transition region, each of said scannable contoured sections being differently shaped from the other scannable contoured sections, wherein the scannable contoured sections comprise four different scannable contoured sections, with each one of the four different scannable contoured sections being radially opposite another one of the four different scannable contoured sections.