Patent attributes
A system for capturing and displaying an image of an entire oral cavity includes a handheld intraoral camera and a computer processor. Each of left and right panoramic tooth row images is generated by combining a first digital still image including the center of the front teeth with a second digital still image taken adjacent to the first digital still image and having an overlapping portion with the first digital still image, to form a first combined image. This step is repeated until a last digital still image positioned at the back tooth of the respective row is combined with a last combined image, forming the left or right panoramic tooth row image. The left and right panoramic tooth row images are superposed in an area of the center of the front teeth to form the full panoramic tooth row image.
