Patent 11540906 was granted and assigned to JAMES R. GLIDEWELL, DENTAL CERAMICS, INC. on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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.