This application claims the benefit of Chinese Application No. 202311760332.5, filed Dec. 20, 2023, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of oral direct composite resin restoration technologies, and in particular to a guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin and a manufacturing method thereof.
Dental defects are one of common oral diseases. Long-term dental defects have adverse effects on chewing, facial appearance, development, dental pulp, periodontal tissues, and even general health. Restoration of the dental defects usually uses composite resin filling for treatment, but traditional direct composite resin restoration is highly dependent on experience of doctors, which is technically sensitive and difficult in operation, and is a difficult problem for most dental doctors.
As flowable composite resin is popularized in dentistry, the use of the flowable composite resin for direct dental restoration has become a relatively mature technology. The use of a 3D printing guide plate for flowable composite resin injection can properly resolve the problems that the direct composite resin restoration is highly technically difficult, time-consuming, and difficult to achieve high-precision restoration. However, an existing 3D printing guide plate is usually a rigid guide plate, and due to a low deformation rate, the rigid guide plate is difficult to be removed after being put into an undercut of teeth, resulting in difficult displacement after resins are cured. To resolve the problem of difficult displacement of the guide plate, the utility model patent application No. CN202022677342.0 discloses a 3D printing guide plate for injecting a flowable composite resin, and the guide plate uses a design of a buccal (labial) guide plate and a lingual (palatal) guide plate, so that guide plates can be disassembled sequentially after injection, which resolves the problem of difficulties in displacement after injection for restoration of an undercut area to some extent. However, because of the use of the design of the buccal (labial) guide plate and the lingual (palatal) guide plate, the guide plate is prone to floating and spreading out during injection, resulting in poor molding precision. In addition, such a design leads to overflow of more resins from an edge of the guide plate, which is unfavorable for subsequent trimming by doctors. The utility model patent application No. CN202223567639.7 discloses a user-friendly guide plate for injecting a flowable composite resin. The guide plate is provided with a rigid guide plate outer layer and a soft guide plate inner layer, and soft and rigid parts of the guide plate are integrally formed through 3D printing. Although such a guide plate can resolve the problem of difficulties in displacement after injection for restoration of an undercut area, such a processing manner has extremely high requirements for 3D printing equipment, and production costs are extremely high. Therefore, the processing manner is impractical for popularization at the present stage. Due to limitation of 3D printing precision and some errors in CAD design and production, it is impossible to achieve perfect reproduction of an inner surface of the guide plate, and there are still the problems of excessive overflow from an edge of the guide plate and the poor surface quality of restorations.
The present disclosure provides a guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin and a manufacturing method thereof, to resolve a problem of difficulties in placement and displacement of a guide plate when a resin is injected to restore an undercut of a tooth, and improve molding precision of the restoration.
The present disclosure is implemented by using the following technical solution: a method for manufacturing a guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin, including the following steps:
The rigid guide plate shell can limit deformation of a soft material, so that injection molding precision is effectively improved. In this solution, the lining made of a soft material is manufactured by injecting the soft material into an inner cavity of the rigid guide plate shell, and then is printed on the wax pattern model through impression. Because the soft material has good flowability, a surface structure of a dental prosthesis can be finely reproduced when the soft material is in contact with the surface of the wax pattern model, to effectively perform more accurate matching based on dental defects of different patients, for example, perform perfect fit based on thicknesses, areas, and different shapes of the dental defects of the patients. When a to-be-restored surface of a defect is very small, it is possible to implement more accurate restoration for a patient with an extremely thin dental defect position by reducing a volume of a molding cavity formed by the soft material or making a wax pattern model very thin. The manufacturing method in this solution has a wide application range, and is applicable to restoration of dental defects with various shapes, sizes, and thicknesses, and can effectively improve restoration precision, thereby improving restoration quality.
The arrangement of the termination point in this solution can ensure thickness uniformity of the soft material, assist in placement and stabilization of the rigid guide plate shell during injection restoration performed in a mouth of a patient and during manufacturing of the lining, minimize deformation of the soft material, and implement combination of the soft material and the rigid guide plate shell, to prevent an increase of interfaces from affecting precision.
Further, the surface of the wax pattern model is polished before the lining is manufactured in step S3, and the surface of the wax pattern model is coated with a separating agent and blown dry for later use.
Beneficial effects: Such arrangement allows the lining to be easily demolded and separated from the wax pattern mold after curing, and ensures smooth surfaces of the molding cavity and a curing cavity of the lining, so that the quality of later restoration can be improved.
Further, the edge of the guide plate shell is located at a gingival margin during the manufacturing of the guide plate shell in step S2.
Beneficial effects: Such arrangement allows the guide plate shell to fit more closely with an intraoral tooth position of a patient during later restoration, and avoids excessive overflow of the flowable composite resin injected during the restoration.
Further, the soft flowable composite material is a transparent silicone rubber material. The material has good elastic deformability, can be easily placed onto and displaced from teeth, and can more effectively give play to the advantages of the injection guide plate, especially for teeth with large undercuts.
A guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin is formed by using the foregoing method for manufacturing a guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin, the guide plate structure for injecting a flowable composite resin includes a guide plate shell and a lining, the guide plate shell is a rigid guide plate shell, the lining is a soft lining, a plurality of overflow holes are formed on the guide plate shell, the soft lining is located on an inner side of the rigid guide plate shell and fixedly connected to the rigid guide plate shell in an embedded mode, the guide plate shell is provided with an injection channel used for injecting a flowable composite resin, a non-injection area on an inner surface of the lining is provided with a fixing cavity, and an injection area on the inner surface of the lining is provided with a molding cavity.
Beneficial effects: The guide plate structure in this solution is formed by combining the guide plate shell and the lining to form a soft-rigid combined guide plate structure, which can effectively resolve the problem of difficulties in placement and displacement of the guide plate structure when a flowable composite resin is injected to restore an undercut of a tooth. In addition, the soft lining has certain elasticity, can be easily placed onto and displaced from teeth, and can more effectively give play to the advantages of the injection guide plate structure, especially for teeth with large undercuts.
Further, each axial surface of each tooth position in the non-injection area is correspondingly provided with a termination point.
Beneficial effects: The termination point can further ensure thickness uniformity of the soft material, and assist in placement of the rigid guide plate shell on the wax pattern model during manufacturing of the soft lining, thereby improving restoration precision and quality.
Further, a tooth position in a non-injection area covered by the inner surface of the guide plate shell is provided with a termination point, and the termination point is a columnar protrusion in contact with a surface of a non-injection resin restoration area.
Beneficial effects: Such arrangement can improve matching between the termination point and the surface of the tooth position, thereby improving restoration precision and quality.
Further, the overflow holes are evenly distributed on the guide plate shell, the overflow holes are conical holes, one end, located on an inner surface of the guide plate shell, of the overflow hole is an inner circle, the other end, located on an outer surface of the guide plate shell, of the overflow hole is an outer circle, and a diameter of the outer circle of the overflow hole is larger than that of the inner circle of the overflow hole.
Beneficial effects: This solution can ensure that the soft lining can be firmly embedded in the guide plate shell, tightness of the combination of the lining and the guide plate shell can be improved, and overall quality and precision of the guide plate structure can be improved.
Further, the bottom of the injection channel on the guide plate shell has a shape matching a surface shape of the tooth position in the injection area.
Beneficial effects: In this solution, the matching between the injection channel and the surface of the tooth position can be improved, thereby improving restoration quality and accuracy.
Compared with the conventional technology, the present disclosure has the following advantages and beneficial effects:
The accompanying drawings described herein are used to provide further understanding of embodiments of the present disclosure, and constitute a part of the present application, but does not constitute limitations to the embodiments of the present disclosure. In the accompanying drawings:
To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of the present disclosure clearer, the present disclosure is further described in detail below with reference to embodiments and the accompanying drawing. The schematic implementations of the present disclosure and descriptions thereof are only used to explain the present disclosure, but are not intended to limit the present disclosure.
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A plurality of overflow holes are formed on the guide plate shell 1. In this embodiment, because the soft lining is formed by using the transparent soft flowable material, the overflow holes are used to provide channels for overflow of the transparent soft flowable material.
A shape of the guide plate shell 1 matches a shape of an intraoral tooth of a patient. The soft lining is located on an inner side of the rigid guide plate shell 1 and fixedly connected to the rigid guide plate shell 1 in an embedded mode. In this embodiment, a part of the material of the soft lining is embedded in the overflow holes in the rigid guide plate shell 1, so that the soft lining and the rigid guide plate shell 1 are mechanically fixed in an embedded mode.
In this embodiment, the overflow holes 102 are evenly distributed on the guide plate shell 1, the overflow holes 102 are conical holes, one end, located on an inner surface of the guide plate shell 1, of the overflow hole 102 is an inner circle 1022, the other end, located on an outer surface of the guide plate shell 1, of the overflow hole 102 is an outer circle 1021, and a diameter of the outer circle 1021 of the overflow hole 102 is larger than that of the inner circle 1022 of the overflow hole 102. The shape of the overflow hole enables the transparent soft flowable material to be embedded in the rigid guide plate shell 1, improving fastness and precision of combination between the soft lining and the guide plate shell 1.
The guide plate shell 1 is provided with an injection channel 101 used for injecting a flowable composite resin. In this embodiment, the injection channel 101 is a channel into which an injection head extends and injects a resin when the flowable composite resin is injected for restoration. A bottom end of the injection channel 101 on the guide plate shell 1 has a shape matching a surface shape of a tooth position in an injection area.
A non-injection area on an inner surface of the lining is provided with a fixing cavity, and an injection area on the inner surface of the lining is provided with a molding cavity. In this embodiment, the non-injection area is a tooth position that does not need to be filled with the flowable composite resin for restoration; the injection area is a tooth position that needs to be filled with the flowable composite resin at a later stage for restoration; the fixing cavity is a space formed by the non-injection area on the inner surface of the transparent soft lining, and is used for fixing and placing the guide plate; and the molding cavity is a space formed by the injection area on the inner surface of the transparent soft lining, and is used for molding a prosthesis when the flowable composite resin is injected for restoration.
In this embodiment, a tooth position in the non-injection area covered by the inner surface of the guide plate shell 1 is provided with a termination point 103, and the termination point 103 is a columnar protrusion in contact with a surface of a non-injection resin restoration area. In this embodiment, each axial surface of each tooth position in the non-injection area is correspondingly provided with a termination point 103, and a bottom end of the termination point 103 matches a surface shape of the tooth position in the non-injection area. The arrangement of the termination point 103 can ensure thickness uniformity of the transparent soft flowable material, and assist in placement and stabilization of the rigid guide plate shell 1.
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A method for using the manufactured guide plate structure is as follows:
The manufacturing method in this embodiment can be applied to dental defects of various shapes, sizes, and thicknesses, and can be applicable to restoration of a tooth, a plurality of teeth, or a full mouth of teeth as required, thereby having a wide application range.
The objectives, technical solutions, and beneficial effects of the present disclosure are further described in detail in the foregoing specific implementations. It should be understood that the foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of the present disclosure and are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present disclosure. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202311760332.5 | Dec 2023 | CN | national |