Patent Document ID: 10032269
Application ID: 14775903
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of determining, prior to implanting a planned bone implant into a bone, an indicator of the stability of the planned bone implant after it has been implanted, the method comprising the steps of: Providing a two- or three-dimensional image, excluding distorted panoramic images, of a bone at a location where a bone implant is planned; Determining a bone structural parameter at said location from the two- or three-dimensional image, wherein the bone structural parameter is determined by a texture analysis of a two- or three-dimensional grey scale image in a region of interest at said location where the bone implant is planned, said texture analysis being performed directly on grey scale levels contained in the two- or three-dimensional image; Providing implant stability data which is related to data representing the bone structural parameter, wherein evaluation of said implant stability data comprises at least one of: Resonance Frequency Analysis of a reference implant; assessing the damping capacity of a reference implant; and biomechanical testing including measuring the pull-out strength of a reference implant; and Determining, from the determined bone structural parameter and from said implant stability data, an indicator for the stability of the planned bone implant after implantation at said location, comprising determining said indicator of the stability of the planned bone implant as a primary stability, which is the predicted stability of the implant at the day of implanting the implant into the bone.