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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8092220 | Method for reconstruction of teeth A method for the reconstruction of missing, broken and/or abraded teeth by means of face analysis. In order to determine the shapes and sizes of the teeth, the face of a patient, for whom the teeth are intended, is measured by means of one or more image-type picture... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7442040 | Template for veneer application In one aspect, a method for producing digital models of dental positioning appliances includes providing a digital model of a patient's dentition including teeth; providing a digital model of a veneer covering the patient's teeth; positioning the digital model of th... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7328077 | Method and system for automated mass manufacturing of custom tooth die models for use in the fabrication of dental prosthetics Methods and systems for treating teeth include capturing a digital dental model taken within an oral cavity; modifying the digital model in planning a dental treatment or in designing a tooth die model for a dental prosthetic; creating physical models from the origi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316740 | Lithium silicate materials Lithium silicate materials are described which can be easily processed by machining to dental products without undue wear of the tools and which subsequently can be converted into lithium silicate products showing high strength. ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7267549 | Set of teeth A set of pre-manufactured teeth are provided and include, at least one of a first molar or premolar selected from a group of molars or premolars provided for one jaw, and at least one of a second premolar or molar selected from a group of antagonists provided for th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245977 | Systems and methods for mass customization A method facilitates mass customization of an object by generating a template representing data common to the object; generating specific data to customize the object in conjunction with the template; and fabricating a customized version of the object. ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236842 | System and method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis and a dental prosthesis manufactured thereby A dental prosthesis is made by externally machining successive layers of wax, each of which is formed on a previous prosthesis layer and/or on a coping. Each wax layer is used to form a mold in situ over the previous prosthesis layer/coping, and the appropriate pros... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228191 | Method and apparatus for constructing crowns, bridges and implants for dental use A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture is disclosed for providing a dental crowns using electronic models, and more particularly to a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for creating dental crowns using a lost-wax manufacturing process from electr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7214435 | Dental mill blank assembly A mill blank assembly for a dental prosthesis includes a milling section and a support section for supporting the assembly in a milling machine. In certain embodiments, the milling section is adhesively bonded to the support section by a direct chemical bond that pr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214262 | Temporary cosmetic dental surface coating A temporary cosmetic dental coating has a transparent resin matrix containing embedded glass microspheres. The refractive index of the microspheres is at least 0.03 greater than the refractive index of the transparent resin matrix. Incoming light is reflected back i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210934 | Dental prosthesis made of composite material and method for making same The invention concerns dental prostheses. It concerns a method for making a dental prosthesis of composite material by forming an adhesive interface between a metallic support and a cured ceramic material less than 3 mm thick, forming an intermediate interface by tr... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7189076 | Denture and process for manufacturing artificial teeth for dentures A method of making an artificial tooth for a denture and the tooth so made, the method including making a form tooth of a plastic tooth or an existing denture tooth, using the form tooth to make a mold form, placing a thin layer (1 mm) of polycarbonate incisal mater... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7179089 | Abutment system and method for preparing the same An abutment system for a dental implant includes an abutment having a base portion that is engageable with a dental implant and a shoulder disposed about the base portion that includes a hybrid ceramic material. The hybrid ceramic material includes at least 85% porc... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7160941 | Dental composite materials and method of manufacture thereof A dental composite material that comprises a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane is disclosed. The dental composite material is useful for a variety of dental materials, treatments, and restorative functions including crown and bridge materials, fillings, adhesives... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7137818 | Dental molding, in particular an artificial tooth A dental molding, in particular an artificial tooth, having an outer incisal layer and a dentin layer beneath that, characterized in that a layer of fluorescent material is provided between the dentin layer and the incisal layer. A method of producing the dental mol... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7114547 | Casting ring An apparatus comprising a casting ring and base sized and dimensioned to be coupled together to form a cavity having one or more walls comprising an inner surface of the casting ring, having a bottom comprising an upper surface of the base, and having a form receivi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7091142 | Glass-ceramic and its production and use The invention encompasses a glass-ceramic comprising a continuous glass phase and a crystal phase comprising tetragonal leucite, wherein the glass-ceramic has a crack-free glass phase and a crystal phase comprising leucite crystals distributed essentially homogeneou... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092780 | Method for producing dental restoration and apparatus therefor A method for producing a dental restoration wherein a tooth preparation area is scanned either directly or indirectly. The scanned data is used by a computer controlled milling machine to create two or more investment blocks (50, 52, 54) for preparing a suita... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6994545 | Multicolor tooth used as a layering model in preparing veneers Model tooth for purposes of orientation in dental technical procedures, in which the natural, ordinary layering of neck material, dentin, and enamel is realized using three highly contrasting, translucent materials of different colors that can be distinguished from ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994549 | Dental restorations formed by solid free-form fabrication methods Solid free form fabrication techniques such as fused deposition modeling and three-dimensional printing are used to create a dental restoration. Three-dimensional printing comprises inkjet printing a binder into selected areas of sequentially deposited layers of pow... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6984261 | Use of ceramics in dental and orthodontic applications The invention relates to uses of glasses and glass-ceramics in dental and orthodontic applications. ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6923649 | Artificial tooth and a process for making an artificial tooth An artificial tooth is provided that includes a cutting mass brought into hardened condition by light polymerization, a tooth bone mass brought into hardened condition by light polymerization, and a base mass. Those masses bordering one another are intensively inter... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6899915 | Methods and compositions for culturing a biological tooth Tooth tissues include the pulp mesenchyme that forms the dentin and an epithelium that is responsible for enamel formation. Cells from these tissues were obtained from porcine third molars and were seeded onto a biodegradable scaffold composed of a polyglycolic acid... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6872076 | Dental bridges comprising fiber reinforced frameworks with fiber or particulate reinforced veneers A dental restoration comprising a fiber reinforced composite framework and one or more of a randomly dispersed, fiber-filled veneer, a soft particulate filled composite veneer having a strain to failure greater than that of FRC framework and/or a brittle particulate... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6846181 | Prefabricated components for dental appliances Ready-to-use preshaped, prefabricated cured structural components are prepared in a variety of shapes and sizes to be used in the fabrication of dental appliances. Preferably the structural components are fabricated of a fiber-reinforced composite material or a part... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6843654 | Dental prosthesis A dental composition comprising self-lubricating particles and formed into a dental tooth. The invention provides a dental tooth formed from a composition which includes polymeric matrix material and particles of ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having a part... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6761760 | Dental porcelains Opaque porcelains for use with metal cores in the manufacture of PFM restorations. The porcelains exhibit a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substantially equal to or slightly above the CTE of the metal to which it is applied. The porcelains exhibit a CTE equa... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6731213 | Method and apparatus for providing oral health data The present invention is directed to an apparatus, system and method for detecting a user's oral health habits and providing the oral health data over a network for access by a remote user. For example, the user may utilize an oral health apparatus to brush his teet... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6713421 | Blank comprised of a zirconium oxide ceramic with an oxide additive and the use thereof The invention relates to blanks comprising zirconium oxide-based ceramic with an addition of 0.1 to 0.50 wt.-% of at least one of the oxides of the elements aluminium, gallium, germanium, indium and their use. ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6706654 | Pressable glass ceramic, method for the fabrication thereof, and method for the fabrication of a dental restoration using such glass ceramic A pressable glass ceramic which contains lithium silicate glass and leucite is disclosed. Also, disclosed is the combination of leucite and a lithium silicate glass to stably increase the coefficients of thermal expansion of the resulting glass composition, and the ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6695617 | Methods of dental repair using functionalized nanoparticles There are disclosed amphoteric nano-sized metal oxide particles functionalized with silyl esters of a phosphonate and composites thereof with an acrylate-based monomer, including liquid crystal monomers photopolymerizable at ambient temperature. Also disc... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6660400 | Dental prosthesis blank A dental prosthesis blank and a combined dental prosthesis blank and blank holder. The dental prosthesis blank provides for forming a dental prosthesis therefrom and the blank holder holds the blank during the forming of the prosthesis. The blank comprise... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6660073 | Method of manufacture of dental porcelain having small leucite crystallites A porcelain composition for dental restorations comprising a leucite crystallite phase and a glass matrix phase, wherein the leucite crystallites possess diameters not exceeding about 10 micron. Preferably, the porcelain composition has a maturing tempera... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6653365 | Dental composite materials and method of manufacture thereof A dental composite material that comprises a polymerizable resin composition; a filler system comprising polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane fillers; and a curing system. The dental composite material is useful for a variety of dental materials, treatmen... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6638069 | Shaping cap for dental pin structures Shaping cap made of ceramic, metal or plastic material, which is suitable as a solid constituent of dental pin structures.... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6627248 | Metallization of ceramic restorations A dental restoration comprises a ceramic core material having a thin metallic layer disposed on the interior surface of the ceramic core to provide integrity to the ceramic core, eliminate bonding between the ceramic core and the patient's tooth or teeth,... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6593395 | Dental composition containing discrete nanoparticles The present invention provides a dental composite which has the high strength required for load-bearing restorations, yet maintains a glossy appearance, even after substantial wear. Through the use of particles having a mean particle size between about 0.... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6575750 | Dental embedding material, dental kit and method for making a prosthesis Among other things, a dental embedding material is proposed, containing: 10-30 wt.-% polyethylene glycol dimethacrylate 40-55 wt.-% polymethyl methacrylate 5-15 wt.-% highly disperse silicon dioxide | 06/10/2003 |
| 6488503 | Prosthetic teeth and method of making therefor A process for producing an artificial tooth comprising: injection molding polymerizable material into a mold to form an outer external polymeric layer. Then injection molding polymerizable material into the mold to form an inner polymeric layer applied on... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6485849 | Method for molding dental restorations and related apparatus The present invention is concerned with a process for the formation of dental restorations from glass-ceramic materials and the resulting dental restorations. A dental restoration is prepared by placing a glass-ceramic material in a heat-pressure deformab... | 11/26/2002 |
