Invention Summary:
This innovation addresses a critical gap in digital dentistry techniques for aligning pre-extraction records to post-extraction records, especially in cases of implant placements with or without teeth extractions using intra-oral scanners.
Rutgers researchers have developed a fiducial marker that can be inserted into the bone without any surgical incision through the mucosa, aiding in aligning preoperative intraoral scans to postoperative intraoral scans as well as intraoral scans to Cone Beam Computed Tomography for cases involving partially dentate or completely edentulous patients. This technology aims to assist clinicians in placing implants and loading them with various treatment protocols, ultimately improving treatment outcomes. It aims to help clinicians who want to place implants and immediate, early, or delayed/conventional load them with guided and non-guided treatment protocols using the intra-oral scanner.
Market Applications:
- All aspects of digital dentistry, including private practices, teaching institutes, and dental laboratories. Additionally, it offers a valuable solution for practitioners seeking to optimize their digital workflows and improve treatment planning and outcomes.
Advantages:
- Helps to superimpose the scan of the same jaw
- Economical
- Aligns two scans without hard tissue landmarks
- Serves as stationary stops for alignment of the jaws regardless of the mobile tissue
- Temporarily inserted into the bone without any surgical incision through the mucosa
Intellectual Property & Development Status: Prototype developed and in testing phase. PCT application filed. Available for licensing and/or research collaboration. For any business development and other collaborative partnerships contact marketingbd@research.rutgers.edu.
