Dental implant
AssigneeOlympus Optical Co., Ltd.
InventorHiroshi Fukuda
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Abstract
A dental implant comprising an artificial root which is embedded in a jaw bone and a post to which an artificial tooth is attached, wherein a stress absorbing member made of a super elastic material is provided in at least a part of the implant between the artificial root and the post. Preferably, a stress absorbing system consisting of a super elastic material member and a polymeric material member is employed.
Claims15
A dental implant comprising an artificial root adapted to be embedded in a jaw bone and a post to which an artificial tooth is attached, wherein said artificial root is formed of an elastic material having a high rigidity and wherein a stress absorbing member formed of a super elastic material is provided in at least a portion of a connection portion between said artificial root and said post.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.