Dental system for developing custom prostheses through scanning of coded members
View Patent ↗A set of healing abutments includes a first healing abutment and a second healing abutment. The first healing abutment has an upper surface with a first code thereon. The first code is associated with a size of the first healing abutment. The second healing abutment has an upper surface with a second code thereon. The second code is associated with a size of the second healing abutment. The first healing abutment and the second healing abutment have the same size. The first code is different from the second code.
1. A set of healing abutments, comprising:
a first healing abutment having an upper surface with a first code thereon and a first platform diameter, the first code being associated with a first maximum body diameter and a first height of the first healing abutment; and
a second healing abutment having an upper surface with a second code thereon and a second platform diameter equal to the first platform diameter, the second code being associated with a second maximum body diameter and a second height of the second healing abutment,
wherein the first maximum body diameter is the same as the second maximum body diameter and the first height is the same as the second height such that the first healing abutment and the second healing abutment have the same size, and wherein the first code is different from the second code.
2. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code is defined by a series of indentations on the upper surface of the first healing abutment and wherein the second code is defined by a series of indentations on the upper surface of the second healing abutment.
3. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code includes a series of raised features on the upper surface of the first healing abutment and wherein the second code is includes a series of raised features on the upper surface of the second healing abutment.
4. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code includes differently shaped features on the upper surface of the first healing abutment and wherein the second code includes differently shaped features on the upper surface of the second healing abutment.
5. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code is defined by a series of features that is read in a predetermined order and wherein the second code is defined by a series of features that is read in a predetermined order.
6. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code is defined by a series of features that defines a first binary code and wherein the second code is defined by a series of features that defines a second binary code.
7. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first code includes features that define a location of a non-rotational feature of the first healing abutment and wherein the second code includes features that define a location of a non-rotational feature of the second healing abutment.
8. The set of healing abutments of claim 7 , wherein the features of the first and the second codes include flat surfaces that indicate the locations of the non-rotational features of the first and the second healing abutments.
9. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , further including a third healing abutment having an upper surface with a third code thereon, the third code being associated with a third diameter and a third height of the third healing abutment and being different from the first code and the second code, the third diameter being the same as the first and the second diameter and the third height being the same as the first and the second height such that the first healing abutment and the second healing abutment have the same size as the third healing abutment.
10. The set of healing abutments of claim 1 , wherein the first healing abutment and the second healing abutment are introduced into the market at different times.