Patent Document ID: 20110245951
Application ID: 13096608
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system, for planning an oral or facial endosseous implantation in a patient, comprising: a processing module; a bone imaging module that communicates bone data to the processing module, the bone data representative of at least a portion of a bone of the skull of the patient; a surface imaging module that communicates surface data to the processing module, the surface data representative of at least a portion of a surface, of the patient, that is apart from the bone; wherein the processing module processes the bone data and the surface data into an output comprising three-dimensional (3-D) representation data indicative of at least one of an oral structure and a facial structure of the patient; a fabrication module that, based on the 3-D representation data, produces a temporary non-metal physical model of the at least one of the patient's oral structure or facial structure, the model indicating a planned location of an endosseous implant; and a replicator device which utilizes the temporary non-metal physical model and replicates the pattern of the temporary non-metal physical model onto a metal, permanent blank giving the blank the same physical characteristics of the temporary non-metal physical model.