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OwnerAntonio Cascione, Luca Relandiniinventors
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A dental implant guiding device and method of use thereof, formed from a radio-opaque tubular guide mounted within the inner member of a radio-transparent support so as to be pivotal about the support's transverse axis and where the inner member is inserted into the outer member and the inner member is translationally shiftable within the outer member so as to permit multi-dimensional positioning adjustment by pivoting the tubular guide and shifting the inner member relative to the outer member, the dental implant guiding device being used in implant surgery and the like where it is important to maintain correct positioning of a dental tool with respect to both the angle of inclination and the vestibule-oral direction. The invention also concerns a method of producing drill templates for implant surgery which makes use of the adjustable guiding device in order to obtain the correct position and orientation of the hole to be drilled in the patient's jaw bone. Further, the invention concerns a kit of instruments and devices for use together with the guiding device in applying said method such as a kit that includes a cylindrical guide housing and a multitude of different sized guide cylinders for receipt in a guide housing fixed in position.
A guiding device (7) for positioning dental implants comprising a tubular guide (1, 41) made of a radio-opaque material, of a size suitable to guide a drill (23) for implant cavities, adapted for being mounted in a template (8) fitting the patient's dental arch or a portion thereof, in the position corresponding to the desired implant location, said guiding device (7) being characterised in that said tubular guide (1, 41) is pivotally connected to a first substantially radio-transparent supporting member (3, 43) so as to be rotatable relative to said first supporting member (3, 43) about an axis orthogonal to the axis of said tubular guide (1, 41), and in that said first supporting member (3, 43) is supported by a second substantially radio-transparent supporting member (4, 44) adapted for being fixedly mounted in said template (8), and said second supporting member is dimensioned with respect to said first supporting member (3, 43), such that said first supporting member is repositionable relative to said second supporting member (4, 44) to different drill guide positions along a straight line orthogonal to said rotation axis.
A guiding device (7) for positioning dental implants comprising a tubular guide (1, 41) made of a radio-opaque material, of a size suitable to guide a drill (23) for implant cavities, adapted for being mounted in a template (8) fitting the patient's dental arch or a portion thereof, in the position corresponding to the desired implant location, said guiding device (7) being characterised in that said tubular guide (1, 41) is pivotally connected to a first substantially radio-transparent supporting member (3, 43) so as to be rotatable relative to said first supporting member (3, 43) about an axis orthogonal to the axis of said tubular guide (1, 41), and in that said first supporting member (3, 43) is received within a second substantially radio-transparent supporting member (4, 44) adapted for being fixedly mounted in said template (8) and said first supporting member (3, 43) is releasably retained by said second supporting member to provide for relative adjustment of said first supporting member with respect to said second supporting member (4, 44) to different drill guide positions along a straight line orthogonal to said rotation axis.
A guiding device (7) for positioning dental implants comprising a tubular guide (1, 41) made of a radio-opaque material, of a size suitable to guide a drill (23) for implant cavities, adapted for being mounted in a template (8) fitting the patient's dental arch or a portion thereof, in the position corresponding to the desired implant location, said guiding device (7) being characterised in that said tubular guide (1, 41) is pivotally connected to a first substantially radio-transparent supporting member (3, 43) so as to be rotatable relative to said first supporting member (3, 43) about an axis orthogonal to the axis of said tubular guide (1, 41), and in that said first supporting member (3, 43) is supported by a second substantially radio-transparent supporting member (4, 44) adapted for being fixedly mounted in said template (8), said first supporting member (3, 43) in frictional contact with said second supporting member such that said first supporting member is releasably supported by said second supporting member such that said first supporting member is repositionable relative to said second supporting member (4, 44) to different drill guide positions along a straight line orthogonal to said rotation axis.
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