english version(pg40to78) - Pr. François Duret

F Duret and Coll. Principes de fonctionnement et applications techniques de l’empreinte optique dans l’exercice de cabinet
(traduction Anglaise)
Page 74
[Fig. 1: The first prototype of endo buccal reading (we will note the
laser reading and the hologram’s reading cameras]
A captor situated inside a camera will decode the obtained volume
data, in real time, and transmit them to a computer and its software to
create the future prosthesis. The computer directs a digital command
tool machine which will sculpt the prosthesis in any material (Fig. 2).
A prosthesis manufacturing device, created according to the optical
impression theory, is divided into 3 essential parts:
- a capture system or measurement system, of the dental shapes and
the mandibular movements, including a wave projector and a camera
digitalising the volume or dynamic data;
- a set of data treatment (computer and specialised software) enabling
the rapid conception of external and internal shapes of the prosthesis;
- a digital command tool machine to sculpt the prosthesis (Fig. 3)
Les Cahiers de Prothèse (50) pp 73 – 110, 1985