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US 12,527,645 B2Granted
Positioning and installing surgical drilling devices and related devices and systems
AssigneeGRS Guide System, Inc.
InventorMark Bennett Jamison
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Abstract
In some aspects, dental drill guides can include a body defining an outer surface and an interior hole for receiving and positioning a dental drill; a first end of the body defining a tapered lead-in portion of the outer surface; a second end of the body opposite the first end defining at least one lip feature configured to be gripped by a handling tool; an outer circumferentially formed recess around the outer surface; and a seating feature extending from the outer surface.
Claims5
A system, comprising:
- a dental drill guide with a retention structure comprising a recess formed by a flange of the dental drill guide;
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- a handling device, comprising:
- a cylindrical body with a first end comprising a plurality of finger-like elements each separated by a spacing, wherein each finger-like element includes a protrusion that engages with the retention structure of the dental drill guide when the handling device is attached to the dental drill guide, a second end opposite the first end configured with a lip having a diameter larger than a diameter of the first end of the cylindrical body, and a plurality of ribs arranged horizontally on an exterior surface of the cylindrical body between the first end and the second end, wherein the lip and the plurality of ribs assist a person in manually gripping the cylindrical body when performing insertion of the dental drill guide in a surgical ring or detaching the handling device from the dental drill guide,
- wherein the finger-like elements of the handling device each separately release from the retention structure of the dental drill guide when the handling device is detached from the dental drill guide with a force that both rotates the handling device and pulls the handling device away from the dental drill guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.