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US 8,523,567 B2Granted
Dental implant bar system
OwnerEric Allaireinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an adjustable dental implant bar system. There is provided a dental implant bar which can be adjusted and which may have articulated and telescopic arms and which can be further secured to implant heads already installed in the patient's mouth or alternatively on a manufactured model made with computerized surgical simulation software or using a conventional dental printing system with transfers.
Claims22
A dental implant bar for mounting on a set of prearranged implant heads for receiving dental implants, the dental implant bar comprising:
- a plurality of implant sockets for receiving the dental implants;
- an anchoring mechanism for fastening the sockets to the corresponding implant heads, each implant socket having an aperture therein for receiving the anchoring mechanism therethrough;
- at least one
- adjustable arm assembly, each arm assembly having opposite extremities and linking an adjacent pair of the implant sockets;
- and at least one compression assembly, each compression assembly holding, against the implant socket, one of the extremities of at least one of the at least one arm assembly linking the corresponding implant socket to an adjacent one of the implant sockets, the compression assembly being operable between a compressed configuration wherein each corresponding extremity is locked against the implant socket and a decompressed configuration wherein each corresponding extremity can swivel to change an orientation of the corresponding arm assembly with respect to the implant socket, each said anchoring mechanism being capable of removably fastening and unfastening a corresponding said implant socket to and from the corresponding implant head while the corresponding compression assembly is in the compressed configuration.
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