Components for use with a surgical guide for dental implant placement

A method of manufacturing a dental prosthesis for placement in a patient's mouth, comprising:

• developing a surgical guide to be used in the placement of at least one threaded dental implant at a predetermined location in the patient's mouth, the surgical guide fitting over the tissue and including an opening and a marker adjacent to the opening, the marker for alignment with a non-rotational feature of the at least one threaded dental implant, the opening being configured to rotationally engage an implant mount having the threaded dental implant coupled thereto, the implant mount having implant-mount indicia for alignment with a corresponding surface of the non-rotational feature of the threaded dental implant and with the marker, at least one of the marker and the implant-mount indicia being a plurality thereof;
• developing a model of the patient's mouth using the surgical guide;
• and
• developing the dental prosthesis on the model, the dental prosthesis including a mating structure for mating with the non-rotational feature of the at least one threaded dental implant;
• wherein the surgical guide is configured to be placed in the patient's mouth such that the at least one threaded dental implant may be installed through the opening in the surgical guide by applying rotational force to the implant mount, the at least one threaded dental implant being installed such that, in response to the implant-mount indicia being aligned with the marker during installation of the threaded dental implant, the non-rotational feature is at a known angular orientation with respect to the marker and such that a dental prosthesis may be attached thereto.

A method of making a dental prosthesis for placement in a patient's mouth, comprising:

• developing a surgical guide to be used in the placement of at least one dental implant at a predetermined location in the patient's mouth, the surgical guide fitting over the gingival surface of the patient's mouth and including at least one opening for installing the at least one dental implant therethrough;
• by use of the surgical guide, developing a model of the patient's mouth, the model including at least one implant analog that is positioned within the model at a location and orientation corresponding to the desired location and orientation of the at least one dental implant to be placed in the patient's mouth;
• and
• using the model to develop the dental prosthesis,
• wherein developing the model includes holding the at least one implant analog in place relative to the surgical guide while material is being poured into the surgical guide to develop the model.

A method of making a dental prosthesis for placement in a patient's mouth, comprising:

• developing a surgical guide to be used in the placement of at least one dental implant at a predetermined location in the patient's mouth, the surgical guide fitting over the gingival surface of the patient's mouth and including at least one opening for installing the at least one dental implant therethrough;
• by use of the surgical guide, developing a model of the patient's mouth, the model including at least one implant analog that is positioned within the model at a location and orientation corresponding to the desired location and orientation of the at least one dental implant to be placed in the patient's mouth;
• using the model to develop the dental prosthesis;
• locking an upper, expandable portion of an implant-analog mount into the at least one opening for maintaining the position of the attached implant analog relative to the surgical guide;
• after the at least one implant-analog mount is locked into the at least one opening, pouring a stone material into a backside of the surgical guide;
• and
• after the stone material has hardened, unlocking the at least one implant-analog mount from the at least one opening to release the at least one implant analog such that the at least one implant-analog mount can be removed from the surgical guide.

A method of making a dental prosthesis for placement in a patient's mouth, comprising:

• receiving a dental plan based on at least one scan of the patient's mouth to obtain hard tissue data and gingival tissue data, the dental plan including the location of at least one threaded dental implant;
• developing a surgical guide based on the dental plan, the surgical guide configured to be used in the rotational placement of the at least one threaded dental implant in the patient's mouth, the threaded dental implant having a non-rotational feature, the surgical guide fitting over tissue of the gingival surface of the patient's mouth and including at least one opening for installing the at least one threaded dental implant therethrough, the surgical guide including a marker adjacent the at least one opening, the at least one opening being configured to rotationally engage an implant mount having the threaded dental implant coupled thereto, the implant mount having implant-mount indicia for alignment with a corresponding surface of a non-rotational feature of the at least one threaded dental implant and with the marker such that when the implant-mount indicia is aligned with the marker during installation of the threaded dental implant, the non-rotational feature is at a known angular orientation with respect to the marker, at least one of the marker and the implant-mount indicia being a plurality thereof;
• by use of the surgical guide, developing a model of the patient's mouth, the model including at least one implant analog that is positioned within the model at a location and orientation that corresponds to the desired location and orientation of the at least one threaded dental implant to be placed in the patient's mouth;
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• using the model to develop the dental prosthesis to be secured to the at least one threaded dental implant in the patient's mouth.