Yidan Zhou

3D Reverse Modeling and Rapid Prototyping of Complete Denture

An integrated method of reverse engineering and rapid prototyping technology to manufacture complete denture was presented in this paper. Firstly, geometrical surfaces of complete denture were measured by three-dimensional scanner and their point clouds were obtained. Then the point clouds de-noising processing was performed,data was filtered and reduced, the missing data was repaired and triangular surfaces splicing was realized in Geomagic software. 3D model of complete denture was reconstructed in Pro/E software, and the STL file was generated. Finally, the entity model was manufactured by rapid prototyping machine. Through this process the entity model of running-in-period complete denture was manufactured, which can reduce denture repairing time and contribute to health and medical research.