Apparatus and digital method for preparation of a for the promotion of a desired emergent sulcus

A method of creating a patient-specific healing abutment that meets a proposed sulcus emergence profile for a dental implant surgical site, comprising the following steps, but not necessarily in the order shown below:

• (A) obtaining data of a specific patient's mouth needed to create a computer-generated virtual model of the specific patient's mouth;
• (B) processing said obtained data to create the computer-generated virtual model of a current state of the specific patient's mouth;
• (C) comparing data of the computer-generated virtual model of the current state as it pertains to a site map of a proposed dental implant surgical site of the specific patient's mouth with other data of the virtual model as that pertains to a site map of the mirror location of the proposed dental implant surgical site, the mirror location being on the contra lateral side of the specific patient's mouth from the proposed dental implant surgical site, allowing the site map of the mirror location to be transposed and overlaid upon the site map of the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (D) creating from that comparison of virtual model data, a proposed sulcus emergence profile for the implant surgical site;
• (E) creating a concavity based on the proposed sulcus emergence profile;
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• (F) using the concavity in manufacture of a patient-specific healing abutment, the created patient-specific healing abutment being capable of promoting sulcus emergence pursuant to the proposed sulcus emergence profile, the created patient-specific healing abutment further lacking a chimney of a patient-specific final abutment.

A method of creating a patient-specific abutments that meet a proposed sulcus emergence profile for a dental implant surgical site, comprising the following steps, but not necessarily in the order shown below:

• (A) obtaining data of a specific patient's mouth needed to create a computer-generated virtual model of the specific patient's mouth;
• (B) processing said obtained data to create the computer-generated virtual model of a current state of the specific patient's mouth;
• (C) comparing data of the computer-generated virtual model as it pertains to a site map of a proposed dental implant surgical site of the specific patient's mouth with other data of the computer-generated virtual model as that pertains to a site map of the mirror location of the proposed dental implant surgical site, the mirror location being on the contra lateral side of the specific patient's mouth of the proposed dental implant surgical site, allowing the site map of the mirror location to be transposed and overlaid upon the site map of the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (D) creating from that comparison of virtual model data, a proposed sulcus emergence profile for the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (E) creating a concavity based on the proposed sulcus emergence profile;
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• (F) using the concavity in manufacture of a patient-specific healing abutment as well as patient-specific final abutment, the patient-specific final abutment being capable of supporting a sulcus emergence that has occurred in accordance with the proposed sulcus emergence profile, the patient-specific final abutment further featuring a chimney not found in the patient-specific healing abutment.

A method of creating a patient-specific crown that meets a proposed sulcus emergence profile for a dental implant surgical site, comprising the following steps, but not necessarily in the order shown below:

• (A) obtaining data of a specific patient's mouth needed to create a computer-generated virtual model of a current state of the specific patient's mouth;
• (B) processing said obtained data to create the computer-generated virtual model of the current state of the specific patient's mouth;
• (C) comparing data of the computer-generated virtual model as it pertains to a site map of a proposed dental implant surgical site of the patient's mouth with other data of the virtual model as that pertains to a site map of a mirror location of the proposed dental implant surgical site, the mirror location being on the contra lateral side of the patient's mouth of the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (D) transporting and overlaying the site map of the mirror location upon the site map of the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (E) creating from that comparison of virtual model data, a proposed sulcus emergence profile for the proposed dental implant surgical site;
• (E) creating a concavity based on the proposed sulcus emergence profile;
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• (F) using the concavity in manufacture of a patient-specific crown, the patient-specific crown's base being capable of supporting a sulcus emergence that has developed in accordance with the proposed sulcus emergence profile;
• (G) a step of further using the concavity in a computer-created manufacture of a patient-specific healing abutment, the patient-specific healing abutment lacking a chimney as found on a patient-specific final abutment, the patient-specific healing abutment once placed on a dental implant at the implant surgical site will develop the sulcus emergence according to the proposed sulcus emergence profile.