To provide a method for manufacturing a hardenable dental article, capable of reducing time necessary for a dentist to complete a predetermined dental treatment using the dental article, and also to provide a packaged hardenable dental article and a method for packaging the hardenable dental article.
In various embodiments, the manufacturing may involve molding the hardenable dental material in a mold cavity 10 that may be lined with a mold liner 20. A mold body 12 may also form a package of the hardenable dental article formed within the mold cavity. In other embodiments, the hardenable dental articles may be provided in mold cavities located in sacrificial mold bodies that may be torn, stretched, softened, dissolved, etc. to release the hardenable dental articles in the mold cavities.
Meyertholen, Darin J.
Biegler, Robert M.
Cummings, Kevin M.
Gore, Lance C.
Kvitrud, James R.
Peterson, Robert W.
Scott, Daniel T.
