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Processing digital dental impression

Grant US12575915B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.

Inventors

Sergey Nikolskiy, Fedor Chelnokov

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system of automatically detecting and removing extraneous material from a digital dental impression includes detecting one or more dental features in a digital dental impression, filtering the one or more dental features, digitally joining the one or more dental features, and determining one or more regions of interest from the joined one or more digital dental features.

CPC Classifications

A61B 6/14 A61C 9/0053 A61C 9/0006 A61C 13/0004

Filing Date

2022-12-23

Application No.

18145930

Claims

21