Device for removable attachment of dental prosthesis
AssigneeSkvirsky, Ltd
InventorsIgor Skvirsky, Leonid Monassevitch, Yaniv Skvirsky
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for the attachment of dental prosthesis, consisting of a male component which can be anchored into a jaw and a removable attachable female component for receiving the artificial teeth. The device includes at least one spring element and at least one retention element. At least one spring element is a leaf spring element which is made of superelastic material and connected by one of its end to a removable female component or the installed male component of the dental prosthesis and has a convex part on its second end for tight friction contacting with the retention element of opposite component of the dental prosthesis.
Claims19
A device for the removable attachment of dental prosthesis, comprising:
- an installed male component which can be anchored into a jaw;
- a removable attachable female component for receiving artificial teeth,
- said installed male component or removable attachable female component includes at least one recessed retention element;
- one of said female component and said male component includes at least one spring element for retaining the other of said female component and male component,
- said at least one spring element is made of superelastic material and has a U-shaped configuration formed by a first convex part for connection to one of said removable female component and said installed male component and a second convex part for friction contacting with said recessed retention element of the other of said removable female component and said installed male component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.