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US 10,420,632 B2Granted
Dental tools system and method
AssigneeVp Innovato Holdings Ltd.
InventorsIoannis Vergoullis, Georgios Papadopoulos
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Abstract
A dental tools system with a plurality of guide tabs; a mold and a plurality of tissue punch heads. The mold has a plurality of mold holes, each mold hole having a top portion and a bottom portion. Each guide tab fits in the top portion of one of the mold holes and each tissue punch head fits in the top portion of one of the mold holes. A method of placing dental implants is also described.
Claims19
Dental tools system comprising
- a mold comprising a plurality of mold holes, each mold hole comprising a top portion and a bottom portion;
- wherein the mold comprises
- a mold base, which comprises the bottom portions of the mold holes;
- a mold superstructure, which comprises the top portions of the mold holes, each top portion having a cross section which decreases in the direction towards the mold base;
- wherein the mold base and the mold superstructure may be engaged in more than one operation position so that some top portions match with bottom portions in each operation position;
- wherein the mold base comprises first positioning means and the mold superstructure comprises second positioning means suitable for interacting with the first positioning means in a stable position to keep constant the relative position of the mold base and the mold superstructure
- wherein the first positioning means and the second positioning means have more than one stable position;
- wherein the dental tools system further comprises:
- a plurality of guide tabs;
- and
- a plurality of tissue punch heads;
- wherein
- each guide tab fits in the top portion of one of the mold holes, the guide tab and the top portion of the mold hole having corresponding size and shape;
- and
- each tissue punch head fits in the top portion of one of the mold holes, the tissue punch head and the top portion of the mold hole having corresponding size and shape;
- wherein the fitting in the top portion is such that at least part of a top portion of the mold holes has a shape such that when a guide tab or a tissue punch head is placed in this top portion, it reaches a position with stable equilibrium.
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