Dental restoration system and method

A method for replacing an entire arch of a patient's jaw with a coronal-only full arch dental restoration device, the method comprising:

• for every tooth in a patient's arch having fourteen teeth:
• separating gingival tissue from the tooth using a high-powered laser to expose a portion of a root surface of the tooth;
• and
• extracting the tooth to define a post-extraction root socket while substantially maintaining the patient's original alveolar bone and original keratinized gingiva, thereby defining a portion of a bony/gingival ridge along the arch corresponding to the extracted tooth, the post-extraction root socket having a tooth socket axis that is offset from vertical;
• waiting a period of time for newly ossifying bone to form in first, second, third, and fourth post-extraction root sockets;
• installing a first, second, third, and fourth straight implants into newly ossifying bone of the first, second, third, and fourth post-extraction root sockets such that a threaded body of each of the straight implants is located within bone of the corresponding post-extraction root socket and a collar of each of the straight implants is located generally above an outer cortex layer of the original alveolar bone at least partially in a gingiva layer of the corresponding post-extraction socket, each straight implant having an implant axis that is substantially coaxially aligned with the tooth socket axis of the corresponding post-extraction tooth socket and having a threaded opening for receiving an abutment screw with a thread axis extending substantially along the implant axis, the first, second, third, and fourth post-extraction root sockets located between post- extraction root sockets without an implant;
• directing laser light energy of the all-tissue high-powered laser at inflamed portions of the gingival tissue surrounding any of the collars of the straight implants;
• providing a coronal-only full arch dental restoration device, comprising:
• a body extending between a gingival side and an occlusal/incisal side, wherein the body is defined by fourteen integrally formed teeth portions, each tooth portion having a tooth axis extending buccally/labially between the gingival side and the occlusal/incisal side, wherein the body is free from artificial gingiva and artificial teeth root portions, the integrally formed teeth portions including:
• first, second, third, and fourth abutment-receiving teeth portions having first, second, third, and fourth abutment holes, respectively, each abutment hole extending entirely through the corresponding tooth portion from the gingival side to the occlusal/incisal side of the body to define a gingival opening and an incisal/occlusal opening, respectively, wherein each abutment hole includes a longitudinal axis that is substantially coaxially aligned with the tooth axis of the corresponding tooth portion and the tooth socket axis of the corresponding post-extraction tooth socket to which the tooth portion is configured to engage;
• first and second non-abutment-receiving teeth portions located adjacent to the first abutment-receiving tooth portion, third and fourth non-abutment-receiving teeth portions located adjacent to the second abutment-receiving tooth portion, fifth and sixth non-abutment-receiving teeth portions located adjacent to the third abutment-receiving tooth portion, and seventh and eighth non-abutment-receiving teeth portions located adjacent to the fourth abutment-receiving tooth portion;
• and
• an ovate pontic portion defined on each tooth portion on the gingival side of the body, the ovate pontic portion of each tooth portion substantially conforming in shape to a corresponding post-extraction tooth socket defined by keratinized gingiva covered interdental and interseptal bone of the patient after a tooth is extracted;
• using a high-powered laser to treat at least one of an interior surface of each of the first, second, third, and fourth abutment holes and an exterior surface of each of first, second, third, and fourth abutments to be received in each of the first, second, third, and fourth abutment holes;
• placing each of the first, second, third, and fourth abutments within the first, second, third, and fourth abutment holes, respectively;
• seating the body of the dental restoration device against the bony/gingival ridge such that the ovate pontic portions of each tooth portion engage a corresponding post-extraction tooth socket;
• passing first, second, third, and fourth abutment screws through the first, second, third, and fourth abutment holes, respectively;
• and
• threadably securing the first, second, third, and fourth abutment screws within the threaded openings of the first, second, third, and fourth straight implants, respectively.