Patent ID: 8527079

Claim:
An on-line system for manufacturing a dental mold, comprising: a user terminal configured to receive graphic data of a damaged tooth, a tooth adjacent to the damaged tooth and a tooth occluded with the damaged tooth, which are obtained from a to-be-treated part of a patient directly by a 3D scanner, and to generate graphic data of a restoration tooth based on the received graphic data; a dental mold data management server configured to receive the graphic data of the restoration tooth from the user terminal and to select one of a plurality of dental mold manufacturing apparatuses depending on processing amounts of the respective dental mold manufacturing apparatuses; and one or more dental mold manufacturing apparatuses configured to receive the graphic data of the restoration tooth from the dental mold data management server and to manufacture the dental mold corresponding to the graphic data of the restoration tooth, wherein the dental mold data management server selects a dental mold manufacturing apparatus having the lowest processing amount and sends the graphic data of the restoration tooth to the selected dental mold manufacturing apparatus.