Abstract: A method for manufacturing a dental restoration for a patient, where the method includes: obtaining a 3D scan of at least a restoration site of the patient's mouth, where the manufactured dental restoration is adapted for fitting to the restoration site; obtaining a CAD design of the dental restoration; milling the restoration from a material, where the restoration is milled both on an inside surface configured for fitting to the shape of the restoration site of the patient's mouth and on an outside surface, where the milling is according to the obtained CAD design; transferring the milled restoration to a retention means providing a fixed known position of the restoration relative to a post-processing machinery, where the restoration is retained on the inside surface, such that the outside surface of the restoration is approachable/free/accessible; and performing post-processing of the outside surface of the restoration.

Abstract: A method of obtaining orientation and localization of at least one dental implant includes the following steps: (a) obtaining an impression comprising at least one fixated impression abutment corresponding to the at least one dental implant(s) and/or obtaining an impression comprising at least one fixated impression abutment corresponding to the at least one dental implant(s) on which is mounted a scan implant/analog (b) obtaining pre-determined information of the shape of the impression abutment and/or scan implant/analog, (c) scanning at least a part of the impression, wherein the part includes the at least one impression abutment and/or scan implant/analog thereby obtaining scan data, (d) determining the orientation and localization of the dental implant based on the pre-determined information and the scan data.

Abstract: A method of virtually designing a post and core restoration for attachment in a damaged tooth of a patient, where the tooth includes a bore for receiving the post of the post and core, the method includes obtaining a first 3D scan includes at least a part of the damaged tooth; providing a digital 3D shape adapted to fit the bore of the damaged tooth; virtually matching the first 3D scan of the tooth and the digital 3D shape, where the matching includes matching a surface region in the first 3D scan of the tooth with a corresponding surface region of the digital 3D shape, such that at least part digital 3D shape is represented relative to the first 3D scan of the tooth; and virtually designing the post and core restoration based on the representation of the digital 3D shape relative to the first 3D scan of the tooth.

Abstract: A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.

Abstract: A method of virtually designing a customized healing abutment and a drill guide for a patient, where the method includes: obtaining a CT scan including at least part of the patient's jaw bone; virtually placing at least one implant relative to the jaw bone of the CT scan, such that a planned implant placement is defined; virtually designing: a drill guide for guiding the surgical drilling of a bore for the implant into the patient's jaw bone at the planned implant placement; and a customized healing abutment configured for shaping the soft tissue according to a target profile when arranged in the implant; where the design of the drill guide and of the customized healing abutment is at least partly based on the CT scan and on the planned implant placement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining an accurate three-dimensional model of a dental impression, said method comprising the steps of, scanning at least a part of an upper jaw impression and/or a lower jaw impression, obtaining an impression scan, evaluating the quality of the impression scan, and use the impression scan to obtain a three-dimensional model, thereby obtaining an accurate three-dimensional model of the dental impression.

Abstract: Disclosed is method for generating a dental preparation guide configured for validating the preparation of at least one tooth for a dental restoration, said method comprising: a: obtaining a digital 3D representation of a pre-prepared set of teeth; b: virtually removing said at least one tooth from the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth, such that a digital 3D representation of a remaining set of teeth is formed; c: providing a virtual target dental restoration expressing a target shape of the dental restoration; d: creating a virtual validation surface for the dental preparation guide based on the virtual target dental restoration, where the validation surface is such that the preparation of the tooth can be validated by the dental preparation guide; and e: creating a virtual preparation guide surface by combining the virtual validation surface and at least part of the surface of the digital 3D representation of the remaining set of teeth.

Abstract: Disclosed is a handheld scanner for obtaining and/or measuring the 3D geometry of at least a part of the surface of an object using confocal pattern projection techniques. Specific embodiments are given for intraoral scanning and scanning of the interior part of a human ear.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dental prosthesis including an implant, a customised abutment, a restoration and an implant screw for securing the customised abutment to the implant, wherein the implant includes a screw bore extending from a first end of the implant for receiving at last a part of the implant screw, the customised abutment includes a through-going bore for receiving at least a part of the implant screw, the screw bore and the through-going bore are coaxially aligned along an implant axis when the implant screw is arranged in the screw and through-going bore, the abutment includes a customised abutment base and a customised abutment top where the customised abutment base and the customised abutment top defines an assembly axis along which they were assembled during manufacturing, where the implant axis is different from the assembly axis.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for generating a virtual model of a customized impression tray and for manufacturing such a customized impression tray. A 3D digital representation of a patient's set of teeth is obtained and a virtual model of the customized impression tray is generated, where the generating comprises shaping the virtual model of the customized impression tray according to the 3D digital representation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to adaptive 3D scanning wherein a scan sequence for obtaining full geometrical coverage of a physical object are created automatically and specifically for the physical object, by using a method and a system for producing a 3D computer model of a physical object, wherein the method comprises the following steps providing a scanner system, said scanner system comprising a scanner, and a computer connectable to and/or integrated in said scanner, said computer comprising a virtual model of said scanner, entering shape information of the physical object into the computer, creating in said computer a visibility function based on said virtual model and the shape information, said visibility function being capable of evaluating the coverage of areas of interest of the physical object by at least one predetermined scan sequence, establishing at least one scan sequence based on the evaluation of the visibility function, performing a scan of the physical object using said at least one scan

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for virtually designing the attachment of a manufactured dental model of a patient's set of teeth in a physical dental articulator by means of one or more kinds of spacer elements, where the method comprises: obtaining a virtual 3D dental model of the patient's set of teeth, where the virtual 3D dental model is provided by means of 3D scanning; providing a virtual dental articulator type corresponding to a physical dental articulator, where the dental articulator comprises an upper arm and a lower arm and has a known articulator height, which is the distance between the upper arm and the lower arm in the static position of the dental articulator; providing a minimum height of the dental model, where the height of the dental model is the height of an upper part and the height of a lower part of the dental model; providing one or more kinds of virtual spacer elements with predetermined heights, where each kind of virtual spacer element corresponds to a physical spacer element; determini

Abstract: A method for detecting a movable object in a location includes —providing a first 3D representation of at least part of a surface by scanning; —providing a second 3D representation of at least part of the surface by scanning; —determining for the first 3D representation a first excluded volume; —determining for the second 3D representation a second excluded volume; —if a portion of the surface in the first 3D representation is located in space in the second excluded volume, the portion of the surface in the first 3D representation is disregarded, and/or —if a portion of the surface in the second 3D representation is located in space in the first excluded volume, the portion of the surface in the second 3D representation is disregarded

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer.

Abstract: A method and a 3D guiding system for providing a guided relative movement of a first object and a second object are disclosed. The 3D guiding system comprises a 3D scanner configured for performing a 3D scanning of the second object, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured for at least temporary storing: a 3D model of the second object; program code for determining a present relative arrangement of the first and second objects from a result of a 3D scanning of the second object; and program code for calculating information for guiding the relative movement of the first and second objects towards said first preferred relative arrangement from said present relative arrangement.

Abstract: Disclosed is an integrated 3D scanner for scanning a surface of an object, said integrated 3D scanner comprising: a scanning device capable of operating in a first configuration and in a second configuration, where in said first configuration the scanning device is capable of acquiring a first data set relating to the surface of the object; and in said second configuration the scanning device is capable of acquiring a second data set relating to the surface of the object; a data processing unit configured for combining one or more first data sets and one or more second data sets to provide a combined data set; where the first and second configurations of the scanning device are such that the second data set represents data with a higher spatial resolution than the first data set.

Abstract: The present invention relates to tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, the invention relates to a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a model of a superstructure joining a denture and a corresponding dental arch, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a first 3D representation of at least a part of a preliminary model of the denture, obtaining a second 3D representation of at least a part of the dental arch comprising dental implants, and generating a model of a superstructure based on the first 3D representation, the second 3D representation, dental implant positions and dental implant orientations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of generating and modifying a virtual model of a set of teeth, where the method provides that a restoration can be inserted into a physical model of the set of teeth manufactured from the virtual model of the set of teeth.

Abstract: A scanner for obtaining and/or measuring a 3D geometry of a surface of an object includes a camera having an array of sensor elements, a first device for generating a probe light, a device for transmitting the probe light rays towards the object, a device for transmitting light rays returned from the object to the array of sensor elements, an optical system for imaging with a first depth of field on the camera the transmitted light rays, a device for varying the position of the focus plane on the object, a device for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, a device for determining the in-focus position(s) of sensor elements, and a device for transforming the in-focus data into 3D coordinates.