Dental implant screwdriver harness system

A device for tethering screwdrivers to a hand of a dental practitioner, the device comprising:

• a driver socket assembly, having two opposite sides, comprising a first side and a second side, and comprising a central socket base, wherein two opposing sets of multiple stepped socket flanges are integrally attached on the opposite sides of the central socket base, and wherein each of the socket flanges forms a circular arc which is concentric with the central socket base and which subtends an acute flange angle, and wherein each of the socket flanges comprises a horizontal, circular arcuate, flange step and a vertical, circular arcuate, flange riser, and wherein each of the flange risers cooperates with an opposing flange riser so as to define a driver socket having a socket diameter corresponding to a diameter of a base of a driver head of a seated screwdriver in the driver socket;
• a flexible driver shaft strap which is hingeably attached to the first side of the driver socket assembly, such that a longitudinal axis of the driver shaft strap aligns with a midpoint of each of the socket flanges, wherein the driver shaft strap has multiple oblong strap apertures, and wherein the driver shaft strap is hinged and configured to enable the driver shaft strap to assume a shaft harnessing position, in which the driver shaft strap is wrapped over the driver socket assembly, such that at least one of the strap apertures slides over and securely encompasses a driver shaft of the seated screwdriver, and such that the driver shaft strap firmly engages a top of the driver head of the seated screwdriver and forces the base of the driver head against the central socket base of the driver socket assembly, thereby constraining the seated screwdriver to an axial rotational movement, and wherein the driver shaft strap contains a series of ridges or projections which conjugately engage one or more teeth or detents of a strap locking mechanism, which is rigidly attached to the second side of the driver socket assembly, so as to releasably fix the driver shaft strap in the shaft harnessing position;
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• a flexible tether member having a proximal end which extends from the strap locking mechanism and having a distal end which is adapted to removably attach to the hand of the dental practitioner.