Patent ID: 7493182

Claim:
Method, comprising: providing a scanning device that comprises a scanning appliance and a camera, scanning a shape of a dental model using the scanning appliance, at a first location, modeling a data record for a denture part, at the first location, transmitting the data record of the denture part from the first location to a second location, and manufacturing the denture part at the second location by automated means, dispatching the denture part from the second location to the first location, generating, using the camera at the first location, digital image data in the form of at least one of single images and image sequences, transmitting the digital image data to the second location, wherein the at least one of digital image data and image sequences relate to information on the manufacture of denture parts and show the denture part, and assessing at the second location via image data from the first location whether the denture part fits well or badly on the dental model.