US 12,251,255 B2
Intra-oral bite device and method of recording an anatomical feature of a patient by using the intra-oral bite device
Susanne Maur, Bensheim (DE); and Markus Hülsbusch, Bensheim (DE)
Assigned to Dentsply Sirona Inc., York, PA (US)
Appl. No. 17/619,424
Filed by DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc., York, PA (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/066921
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/260122, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19182891 (EP), filed on Jun. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0240884 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/51 (2024.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/46 (2024.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/542 (2013.01) [A61B 6/461 (2013.01); A61B 6/469 (2013.01); A61B 6/512 (2024.01); A61C 9/0006 (2013.01); A61C 9/0046 (2013.01); A61C 2201/007 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of sensing an anatomical feature of a patient for controlling an x-ray recording apparatus for making an x-ray recording of an oral area of the patient, comprising:
providing an intra-oral bite device including:
an at least one bite area; a sensor device; one or more deformable first materials in operative connection with the sensor device and disposed on the at least one bite area; the intra-oral bite device is configured for use with the x-ray recording apparatus to record the oral area of the patient, the intra-oral bite device at least partially comes into contact with an oral element of the patient when bitten on; the sensor device is configured to record the anatomical feature of an anatomical structure of the patient in the at least one bite area;
responsive to a biting down on the at least one bite area with at least one oral element, sensing, the anatomical feature of the anatomical structure of the patient, and
controlling the x-ray recording apparatus through setting recording parameters on the basis of the anatomical feature, wherein the recording parameters include at least one of a sharp layer, orientation of the x-ray recording apparatus, radiation dose of the x-ray radiation source, recording area of the x-ray recording apparatus, an irradiation angle of the x-ray recording apparatus, a trajectory of the x-ray recording apparatus, an aperture position of the x-ray recording apparatus, and a radiation spectrum of the recording apparatus;
wherein the sensing of the anatomical feature is also conducted at times while the x-ray recording is being made and the recording parameters are concomitantly altered or maintained based on the anatomical feature, wherein the x-ray recording is interrupted when the anatomical feature lies outside a predetermined range.