Method for forming a socket for a dental implant
AssigneeNobelStable
InventorsErnest M. Yazigi, Anas M. Shaar
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Abstract
A method forms a non-circular socket in a jawbone of a patient for receiving a dental implant. A pilot hole is formed in the jawbone. A framework having one or more sets of opposing drill points configured to rotate along axes that are transverse to a vertical axis is directed along the pilot hole. The framework produces the non-circular socket, which may have a series of tiers. A dental implant is inserted into the socket. The dental implant may have a series of tiered sections shaped so that each tiered section conforms to a respective one of the tiers in the socket. An abutment may be securely fastened to the dental implant.
Claims18
A method for forming a socket in a jawbone of a patient into which a dental implant is inserted comprising:
- providing a pilot hole to a predetermined depth in the jawbone along a vertical axis;
- directing a framework into the pilot hole along the vertical axis, the framework having at least a first set of opposed drill points that rotate along a first axis that is transverse to the vertical axis, thereby forming a first tier of a non-circular socket extending along the vertical axis as the framework is being moved along the vertical axis;
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- inserting the dental implant into the socket so that sides of the dental implant conform approximately to the shape of the socket.
A method comprising:
- directing a framework into a jawbone of a patient along a vertical axis, the framework having at least a first set of opposed drill points that rotate along a first axis that is transverse to the vertical axis, thereby forming a first tier of a non-circular socket in the jawbone of the patient, the socket extending along the vertical axis as the framework is directed along the vertical axis;
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- inserting a dental implant into the socket so that sides of the dental implant conform approximately to the shape of the socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.