Therapeutic Tooth Bud Ablation
AssigneeTriAgenics, Inc.
InventorLeigh E. Colby
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Abstract
A system including a sensored ablation probe tip and a virtual stent, said sensored ablation probe tip for use in a tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis, said sensored ablation probe tip for use with an ablation probe unit. A system including a sensored ablation probe tip and a stent, said sensored ablation probe tip for use in a tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis, said sensored ablation probe tip for use with an ablation probe unit
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A tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis, the tooth bud ablation procedure using a predetermined location determined by pre-operatively determining a precise location of a tooth bud, said tooth bud ablation procedure comprising the steps of:
- (a) physically seating a custom surgical stent, made using information from pre-surgical volume scanning, said custom surgical stent having at least one surgical guide so said at least one surgical guide corresponds to at least one tooth bud surgical site, each surgical guide positioned and angled for guiding an ablation probe tip toward said predetermined location;
- (b) after seating said custom surgical stent, inserting said ablation probe tip having a center of ablation through one of said at least one surgical guides, said one of said at least one surgical guides guiding placement of said ablation probe tip so that said center of ablation is positioned at a predetermined location within a tooth bud at said at least one tooth bud surgical site;
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- (c) providing ablation means from an ablation probe unit through said ablation probe tip to said center of ablation at least once to at least partially ablate at least one tooth bud.
A tooth bud ablation method for ablating a tooth bud using a virtual stent, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing said virtual stent and a movement sensored ablation probe tip, said movement sensored ablation probe tip having an insertion end and a connection end, said movement sensored ablation probe tip having a center of ablation;
- (b) providing at least one volume scan;
- (c) providing at least one virtual surgical guide angle, said at least one virtual surgical guide angle providing angle guidance to guide said movement sensored ablation probe tip at a pre-defined angle;
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- (d) providing at least one virtual stop, said at least one virtual stop providing stop information to limit the depth of said movement sensored ablation probe tip to a pre-defined depth;
- (e) introducing said movement sensored ablation probe tip to said tooth bud;
- (f) using said at least one virtual surgical guide angle and said at least one virtual stop, guiding said movement sensored ablation probe tip towards the position where said center of ablation substantially within said tooth bud;
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- (g) providing ablation means at least once to at least partially ablate said tooth bud when said center of ablation is within said tooth bud.
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