Patent attributes
The invention relates to a method for producing an individualized dental impression tray and to one such impression tray, wherein a digital impression tray model of an individualized impression tray is created on the basis of a digital jaw model, the impression tray model has a carrier with at least one inner surface which at least partially corresponds to a negative form of the jaw model, at least one surface subregion on the inner surface is marked by hand or automatically detected, a retaining structure is arranged above and/or below the surface subregion, the impression tray model is stored with the retaining structure as a production template, and the impression tray is produced by machining according to the production template. The retaining structure has a first surface which extends substantially parallel to the surface subregion or substantially in line with the surface subregion and has at least one recess running through it, wherein a depression adjoins each recess of the first surface, the depression extends from the recess in the direction of the carrier and/or into the carrier, and each depression has at least one undercut.
