Gingiva healing abutment for a dental implant
AssigneeCreadent Montauban
InventorJacques Camps
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A healing abutment configured to be provided in an implant prior to fitting a prosthetic tooth and comprising a leg and a head which are aligned along an axis Z and connected by means of a tensioning screw, the leg comprising a lower leg portion configured to cooperate with the implant, the head comprising a lower head portion configured to cooperate with an upper portion of the leg, the healing abutment comprising a reference member which defines a reference point and is configured to cooperate with the leg in order to define a plurality of basic reference point positions and is movably mounted relative to an upper portion of the head having a predetermined shape in order to allow the selection of at least one optimum basic position from the plurality of basic positions.
Claims20
A healing abutment configured to be mounted in an implant prior to placing a prosthetic tooth, the healing abutment comprising:
- a foot and a head which are aligned along an axis Z and connected by a clamping screw extending along the axis Z,
- the foot comprising a lower foot part configured to cooperate with the implant and an upper foot part,
- the head comprising a lower head part configured to cooperate with the upper foot part so as to mount the head onto the foot and an upper head part having a determined shape,
- at least one reference member defining an oriented reference frame in at least two dimensions and configured to cooperate with the foot in order to define a plurality of elemental positions of the oriented reference frame with respect to said foot along the axis Z, said at least one reference member being movably mounted as an insert onto the upper head part in order to allow at least one optimal elemental position to be selected among the plurality of elemental positions according to the determined shape of said upper head part;
- and
- wherein the oriented reference frame being defined on an upper face of the reference member.
A healing abutment configured to be mounted in an implant for use as a temporary prosthetic foot prior to placing a permanent prosthetic tooth, the healing abutment comprising:
- a foot and a head which are aligned along an axis Z and connected by a clamping screw extending along the axis Z;
- the foot comprising a lower foot part configured to cooperate with the implant and an upper foot part;
- the head comprising a lower head part configured to cooperate with the upper foot part so as to mount the head onto the foot and an upper head part having a determined shape with an exposed upper surface;
- wherein the foot and the head are interlocked from angular movement relative to one another by complementary interlocking members;
- a reference member defining an oriented reference frame in at least two dimensions and configured to cooperate with the foot to define a plurality of elemental positions of the oriented reference frame with respect to said foot along the axis Z, the reference member being movably mounted as an insert onto the upper head part to allow at least one optimal elemental position to be selected among the plurality of elemental positions according to the determined shape of said upper head part, and
- wherein the reference member is located on the upper head part and is visible at the upper surface of the upper head part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.