US Patent Issued to ESTHETIC IMPLANT SOLUTIONS on Dec. 9 for "Methods for integrating scans including 3D cone beam scan for positioning of implant and fabrication of dental prosthesis" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,053, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ESTHETIC IMPLANT SOLUTIONS LLC (Bountiful, Utah).

"Methods for integrating scans including 3D cone beam scan for positioning of implant and fabrication of dental prosthesis" was invented by Todd C. Liston (Ogden, Utah) and Mark H. Blaisdell (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for taking a scan of a patient's oral cavity for use in fabricating a dental prosthesis. Such methods may include providing a healing cap configured to be received within a subgingival void of a given tooth position, taking a first scan of the healing cap, wherein the first scan is taken outside of a pati...