Granted Patent B2

US 12,285,307 · App. 15/047,545 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Inventors: Peter Wohrle (Corona Del Mar, CA); Oded Bahat (Beverly Hills, CA)

A61C3/02A61C1/0015A61C1/082A61C19/04A61B2090/062

Abstract

Claims (12)

1. A dental drill comprising:

a drill bit comprising one or more markings, wherein the drill bit is removably coupled with the dental drill;

a detection mechanism coupled with the dental drill; wherein the detection mechanism is configured to determine information about the drill bit based on the one or more markings;

an optical sensor configured to acquire a surface data from one or more intraoral structures;

a processing unit configured to merge the optical sensor data with a Computed Tomography (CT) data set from a CT scan of the one or more intraoral structures; and

a display displaying the one or more intraoral structures superimposed onto the CT scan based on the merging of the optical sensor data with a Computed Tomography (CT) data set and displaying position of the drill bit based on the merging of the optical sensor data with a Computed Tomography (CT) data set.

2. The dental drill of claim 1 , wherein the detection mechanism is another optical sensor.

3. The dental drill of claim 1 , wherein the one or more markings is a bar code.

4. The dental drill of claim 1 , wherein the one or more markings is a notch.

5. The dental drill of claim 1 wherein the one or more markings is a protrusion.

6. The dental drill of claim 1 , wherein the detection mechanism is configured to determine a length of the drill bit, a diameter of the drill bit, or a type of drill bit based on the dimensions, number of or location of the one or more markings.

7. The dental drill of claim 1 , wherein the detection mechanism is configured to determine a length of the drill bit, a diameter of the drill bit, and a type of drill bit inserted into the dental drill.

Continuity (2)

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