Dental bore-locating guide

A dental bore-locating guide comprising:

• a U-shaped member having a pair of parallel legs connected by a bight;
• a pair of parallel arms perpendicularly extending from respective ends of said legs;
• a pair of parallel pins perpendicularly extending from respective ends of said arms;
• one of said legs, one of said arms and one of said pins defining a first U-shaped unit;
• the other leg, the other arm and the other pin defining a second U-shaped unit;
• said first U-shaped unit being disposed in a first plane, and said second U-shaped unit being disposed in a second plane parallel to said first plane;
• and
• said pins being disposed in a third plane perpendicular to said first and second planes so that said legs are directly in front of respective ones of said pins.

A method of locating bores to be drilled in teeth, comprising:

• positioning a dental guide having tubular guiding portions on the occlusal surface of the teeth with the tubular guiding portions extending upwardly therefrom;
• inserting pin portions of a locating guide into the tubular guiding portions of the drill guide with arms of the locating guide extending over the occlusal surface toward the labial surface of the teeth, and a front U-shaped portion of the locating guide overlying the labial surface with the legs of the U-shaped portion being co-planar with the respective pin portions;
• taking an x-ray of the teeth having the locating guide positioned within the drill guide, and
• determining the orientation of the bores to be drilled from the resulting x-ray location of the legs of the U-shaped member with respect to the internal structure of the teeth.