Patent Document ID: 20110183289
Application ID: 11921818
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of manufacturing a rapid prototype of a patient's dentition for use in creating a patient specific prosthetic comprising the acts of: taking an impression of a mouth including a first installation site having a dental implant installed in the first installation site and a gingival healing abutment having at least one informational marker attached to the dental implant; preparing a stone model based on the impression, the stone model including teeth models and model markers indicative of the at least one informational marker; scanning the model; generating scan data from the scanning of the model; transferring the scan data to a CAD program; creating a three-dimensional model of the installation site on the CAD program using the scan data; determining the at least one informational marker to gather information for manufacturing the rapid prototype of the patient's dentition; developing the rapid prototype dimensional information based on the three-dimensional image and the at least one informational marker; transferring the rapid prototype dimensional information to a rapid prototyping machine; and fabricating the rapid prototype of the patient's dentition including a dental implant analog receptacle on the rapid prototyping machine using the rapid prototype dimensional information.