Apparatus and method for a transalveolar dental implant
OwnerRobert G. Haleinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to single tooth or full arch dental restoration. In cases where patients have insufficient bone stock for conventional root-form dental implants, current solutions often fail to restore function. The present disclosure describes a transalveolar dental implant for single tooth or full arch dental restoration. The transalveolar dental implant is comprised of a post and a bone plate, the bone plate having a contoured portion fabricated to match the topography of a bony surface of the facial skeleton. Through primary fixation of the contoured portion of the bone plate, the transalveolar dental implant improves function and outcomes in affected patients.
Claims8
A method of manufacture of a dental implant, comprising:
- acquiring, via processing circuitry, structural data corresponding to a facial skeleton;
- selecting, via the processing circuitry, an outer surface of a bone of the facial skeleton based upon a determination of cortical bone thickness;
- generating, via the processing circuitry, a contoured surface based upon the selection of the outer surface of the bone of the facial skeleton;
- fabricating, based upon an instruction transmitted via the processing circuitry, a bone plate based upon the generated contoured surface;
- and
- attaching a post to the bone plate, wherein
- the bone plate includes a planar portion and a contoured portion, the planar portion of the hone plate and the post being adapted to be positioned within a vertical slot osteotomy and the contoured portion being configured to be coupled to the selected outer surface of the bone of the facial skeleton.
A dental implant, comprising:
- a bone plate having one or more surfaces contoured relative to a selected outer surface of a bone of a facial skeleton;
- and
- a projecting portion, the projecting portion of the dental implant extending from and below the bone plate, wherein
- the projecting portion is configured to be coupled to a prosthesis,
- the one or more contoured surfaces of the bone plate are configured to be coupled to the selected outer surface of the bone of the facial skeleton, and
- the projecting portion includes a biasing feature proximate to the bone plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.