| 20100124731 | DENTAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LINKING PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL DATA FOR DIAGNOSTIC, TREATMENT PLANNING, PATIENT EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, MANUFACTURING, AND DATA TRANSFER PURPOSES - A dental device and/or process include at least one scaled and shaped linking component to be supported by a dental model or an imaging template. The process includes scaling, aligning, and orienting data from different data acquisition sources with the scaled and shaped linking component, and combining the data from different data acquisition sources into a master data file. A method of making the diagnostic model can include virtually designing an imaging template including at least one linking component made at least partially of a radio opaque material, and three-dimensionally printing the virtually designed template. The diagnostic model can include at least one of an exposed bone structure portion, a removable gum tissue portion, a removable bone structure portion, a visualization portion illustrating a root, bone density, an internal bone structure, a nerve channel, a nerve ending, a sinus cavity, a blood vessel, an artery, and diagnostic teeth. | 05-20-2010 |
