Denture support frame

A denture support frame arranged to be secured to the lower jaw of a person for supporting an artificaial denture thereon, said frame comprising

• a one-piece U-shaped bar having upper and lower edges and arranged to support an artificial denture on its upper edge, said bar having front and rear portions with the front being narrowed and curved and the rearwardly extending portions at the sides diverging outwardly in substantially a straight line whereby to be of a contour similar to the contour of the lower jaw of a person,
• a rear ramus implant portion on each side at the rear portion arranged to be implanted in recesses cut in the ramus portion of the jaw bone,
• and front support means on said bar arranged for engagement with the jaw,
• said ramus implant portions comprising rear longitudinal extensions of said bar,
• said extensions having substantially the same vertical disposition as the rear portion of said bar from which it extends,
• said extensions being joined with said bar at an angle substantially greater than a right angle but less than 180 degrees and extending both upwardly and downwardly relative to rear portions of the bar with the upward extending portion having a length substantially greater than the downward extending portion,
• said rear portions of said bar immediately forward of said ramus implant extensions being bent upward a small amount whereby to be disposed out of alignment with the straight side portions of said bar and to extend into the ramus jaw portions approximately centrally between the sides,
• said extensions being directed from front to rear toward said front support means.