Method for making surgical guiding sleeves components for a surgical template

Abstract

Current dental implant guide sleeve systems for orienting a drill bit in the pre-determined location and angulation for making an implant osteotomy in the recipient's mouth are complicated and/or require multiple custom-made surgical templates in order to accommodate different osteotomy drills' diameters. The novel “thread-lock” invention system is based on the use of a master bushing which is inserted into a predetermined location and hole and secured by means of an adhesive to custom-made surgical template. Its inner diameter is tapped through 8×32 and reamed out to suit the largest diameter drill being used. The smaller sleeves screw into the primary sleeve and are locked into place with a clockwise twisting motion. The smaller sleeves are tapped through 8×32 and reamed out to suit the subsequent diameter sleeves used. The result is that multiple bushings with different diameter holes can be assembled on one surgical template and that three different diameter holes, starting from the smallest diameter and moving up, can be drilled on the same precise location and trajectory.

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