Patent Document ID: 9901417
Application ID: 13356922
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, for planning an oral or facial endosseous implantation in a patient, comprising: a processor; a bone imager that communicates bone data to the processor, the bone data representative of at least a portion of a bone of the skull of the patient; a surface imager that communicates surface data to the processor, the surface data representative of at least a portion of a surface, of the patient, that is apart from the bone; wherein the processor processes the bone data and the surface data into an output comprising three-dimensional (3-D) representation data indicative of at least one of the group consisting of an oral structure and a facial structure of the patient; a fabricator that, based on the 3-D representation data, produces a physical model of the at least one of the patient's oral structure and facial structure, the physical model indicating a planned location of an endosseous implant; an assistant module to generate an output as a graphical display illustrating bone data including at least one of (i) a size or a location of the endosseous implant, (ii) an implant measurement, or (iii) a Hounsfield unit map, wherein the bone data is based on a measurement of Hounsfield units in a region of the bone that includes the planned location; and a replicator device which uses a non-metal custom shaped abutment created from the physical model and using drilling techniques, replicates a pattern of the non-metal custom shaped abutment onto a metal, permanent blank giving the blank the same physical characteristics as the non-metal custom shaped abutment.