Sinus lift implant
AssigneeMaxillent Ltd.
InventorsHadar Better, Gideon Fostick, Yossi Gross
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Abstract
A dental implant is provided that has a proximal-most part, a lateral external surface, and a distal implant portion that extends from a distal implant end along up to 50% of a longitudinal length of the implant. The implant is shaped so as to define a lumen therethrough (a) having at least one distal opening through a distal external surface of the distal implant portion, (b) having a lateral opening through the lateral external surface, and (c) not open to a proximal external surface of the implant within 2 mm of the proximal-most part of the implant. Other embodiments are also described.
Claims27
Apparatus comprising:
- a dental implant having a proximal-most part, a lateral external surface, and a distal implant portion that extends from a distal implant end along up to 50% of a longitudinal length of the implant, the implant being shaped so as to define a lumen therethrough (a) having at least one distal opening through a distal external surface of the distal implant portion, (b) having a lateral opening through the lateral external surface, and (c) not open to a proximal external surface of the implant within 2 mm of the proximal-most part of the implant;
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- a delivery tube having a proximal tube end and a distal tube end, which distal tube end is removably coupled to the implant such that the delivery tube is in fluid communication with the lumen via the lateral opening when the delivery tube is coupled to the implant.
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Apparatus comprising a dental implant having a proximal-most part, a lateral external surface, and a distal implant portion that extends from a distal implant end along up to 50% of a longitudinal length of the implant, the implant being shaped so as to define:
- a lumen therethrough (a) having at least one distal opening through a distal external surface of the distal implant portion, and (b) not open to a proximal external surface of the implant within 2 mm of the proximal-most part of the implant, and
- exactly one lateral opening to the lumen through the lateral external surface of the implant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.