EPITHESIS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND EPITHESIS MANUFACTURED BY THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing an epithesis, which can complete it in a short time and manufacture it at a low cost without depending on skill.;SOLUTION: A defect model including a face defective part of a patient is manufactured, and a face form support frame is manufactured using a synthetic resin sheet from the defect model. The face image of the patient is fetched in a computer, a bilaterally symmetrical part on the healthy side corresponding to the defective part of the face image is inverted and turned to a defective part image, and the defective part image is printed on a thermal transfer sheet. The thermal transfer sheet on which the image of the inverted part is printed is transferred to an extensible sheet, the extensible sheet is bonded to the face form support frame, to make the epithesis.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT