Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100297574 | CT-based, Side-loading Surgical and Laboratory Dental Implant Guide System and Methodology of Use - One possible embodiment of the invention could be a dental surgical guide and a methodology of operating same, the dental surgical guide could be comprised of a body with a set of walls, a top portion, and a bottom portion and at least one open-sided channel, the open-sided channel continuously connects an opening of the one of the set of walls to the top portion and the bottom portion; and at least one master grommet, the master grommet having a hollow grommet interior that continuously connects a side opening, a top aperture and a bottom aperture; wherein the open-sided master grommet is placed within a respective open-sided channel to allow a dental tooling head to be placed into the master grommet through the master grommet's side opening. | 11-25-2010 |
20120003610 | APPARATUS AND DIGITAL METHODOLOGY FOR PREPARATION OF A DENTAL IMPLANT SURGICAL SITE FOR THE PROMOTION OF A DESIRED EMERGENT SULCUS - One possible embodiment of the invention could be a methodology of creating a proposed sulcus emergence profile for a dental implant surgical site, comprising of the following steps obtaining data of a specific patient's mouth needed to create a computer-generated virtual model of that patient's mouth; processing said obtained data to create a computer-generated virtual model of the patient's mouth; comparing virtual model data as it pertains to a site map of a proposed dental implant surgical site with virtual model data as it pertains to a site map of a mirror location in the mouth of the surgical site, allowing the mirror location site map to be transposed and overlaid upon the site map of the surgical site; and creating from that comparison of virtual model data, a proposed sulcus emergence profile for the implant surgical site. | 01-05-2012 |
20140272778 | BONE FOUNDATION GUIDE AND METHOD OF USE - One possible embodiment of the invention could be a combination of a bone foundation guide and a dental implant surgical guide and a method of use, the guide comprising a body having a buccal wall and a lingual wall that is continuously connected by a first end and second end forming an open surgical space connecting a top of the body with a bottom of the body, wherein the bottom is further contoured to receive and rest upon at least a portion of a bone segment of a respective patient's alveolar ridge to guide the surgical alteration of a respective patient's alveolar ridge; a dental implant surgical guide that is capable of locating and securing one or more implants upon the respective patient's alveolar ridge; wherein the dental implant surgical guide fits upon the top, the top being contoured to receive and support the dental implant surgical guide. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272780 | DENTAL SURGICAL IMPLANT GUIDE AND PROSTHESIS COMBINATION AND METHOD OF USE - One embodiment of the invention could be a combination dental surgical implant guide/prosthesis and use method, comprising a dental implant surgical guide sandwiched between and enclosed between a prosthesis cover fitted over a prosthetic base; the dental implant surgical guide is comprised of two or more double open-ended hollow master tubes connected together by on or more implant bars; the prosthesis base, manufactured to resemble a patient's gingivae, is penetrated by a set of base apertures that are respectively aligned with one set of open ends of master tubes; the prosthesis cover may be partially penetrated by a set of cover apertures that are also respectively aligned with another set of open ends of master tubes; wherein implant fasteners implants attach to anchored implants passing through the surgical guide and prosthesis base combination to form an attachment point for the prosthesis cover to attach to surgical guide. | 09-18-2014 |
20150010881 | BONE FOUNDATION GUIDE AND METHOD OF USE - A bone foundation guide comprising a bone foundation guide body contoured to guide a cutting implement to alter an exposed bone of a dental surgical site, the bone foundation guide body forming an encircled open surgical space that continuously connects a top and a bottom of the bone foundation guide body, the bottom is further contoured to affix to the exposed bone of the dental surgical site while the top is further adapted to support a dental implant surgical guide or in the alternative a cutting containment guard; and the cutting containment guard having a cutting channel for receiving the exposed bone when the cutting containment guard is combined with the bone foundation guide body, the combination forms a cutting slot for guiding a cutting edge of a cutting implement to alter the exposed bone from the dental implant surgical guide. | 01-08-2015 |
20150079537 | IMPLANT-BASED ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR DENTAL IMPLANT SURGICAL GUIDE AND METHOD - The invention could be a system and a method for attaching a dental implant surgical guide to one or more dental implants, the system comprising an abutment capable of connecting to at least one of the one or more dental implants and to an implant mount; the implant mount having an implant mount body with a first mount end that connects accepts a portion of the abutment and a second mount end that has a rim that cannot pass through the dental implant surgical guide; and a cap that is comprised of a hollow cylinder with an enclosed cap end and an open cap end, the cap being capable of engaging a dental implant surgical guide so to sandwich the rim between the cap and the dental implant surgical guide. | 03-19-2015 |
20150327958 | METHOD FOR CREATING A VIRTUAL ORAL-MAXILLOFACIAL ANATOMICAL REPRESENTATION - The invention could be a process for creating a dental anatomical representation comprising the following steps, seating radiopaque elastomer material between an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a mouth of a patient, the patient then fully biting down upon the radiopaque elastomer material to form the radiopaque elastomer material into a physical record of at least a portion of each of the two jaws and each jaw's position relative to the other jaw; taking a first scan of the patient's mouth with the formed radiopaque elastomer material in place between the jaws; and creating a virtual representation of the formed radiopaque elastomer material from data presented in the first scan, then using the virtual representation to align and correlate data obtained from the first scan and any other scans of a patient's anatomy. | 11-19-2015 |
20160038255 | BONE FOUNDATION GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A bone foundation guide system and method, the system could comprise a bone foundation guide comprising a body forming an open surgical space, the body further having a bottom contoured to reversibly affix to exposed bone of a dental surgical site and a top contoured to match a bottom side of a dental implant surgical guide; at least one anchoring strut that removably attaches to the body with an apex of the anchoring strut further denoting an one or more indentations for matching up with and receiving one or more portions of one alveolar ridge that opposes another alveolar ridge supporting the dental surgical site; alternatively to the anchoring struts and a tissue spacing gasket, the dental implant surgical guide that removably connects to the body; and alternatively to the anchoring struts or the dental implant surgical guide, the tissue spacing gasket that removably connects to the body. | 02-11-2016 |