Methods of designing and manufacturing customized dental prosthesis for periodontal or osseointegration and related systems

A method of manufacturing a dental implant to replace a non-functional natural tooth positioned in a jawbone of a specific pre-identified patient, the method comprising the step of:

• designing the dental implant based upon at least one virtual model of at least portions of a non-functional natural tooth positioned in a jawbone of a specific pre-identified patient, the at least one three-dimensional virtual model of the non-functional natural tooth including a modeled virtual root portion and a modeled virtual crown portion, the step of designing the dental implant including the steps of:
• forming a virtual dental implant body modeling a dental implant body, the virtual dental implant body having a virtual occlusally-facing prosthesis interface modeling a prosthesis interface of the dental implant body to receive an occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component, the step of forming the virtual dental implant body including forming the virtual occlusally-facing prosthesis interface to include a three-dimensionally contoured custom implant interface surface shape derived from a virtually reduced model of a substantial portion of the modeled virtual crown portion, the three-dimensionally contoured custom implant interface surface shape correlated to a corresponding surface shape of the modeled virtual crown portion, and
• forming a virtual occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component modeling an occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component, the step of forming the virtual occlusally-facing dental prosthesis component including forming a complementing virtual dental implant body-receiving surface to define a complementing virtual interface surface modeling a complementing interface surface to receive occlusally-facing portions of the dental implant body, the prosthesis interface and the complementing interface surface to create a form locking fit therebetween.

A method of manufacturing a dental prosthesis to replace a non-functional natural tooth positioned in a jawbone of a specific pre-identified patient, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving 3D in-vivo imaging data describing an in-vivo dental anatomy of the specific pre-identified patient associated with the non-functional natural tooth prior to its removal from the jawbone of the specific pre-identified patient, the 3D in-vivo imaging data to include 3D in-vivo root imaging data of at least a portion of an in-vivo root of the non-functional natural tooth, and 3D in-vivo occlusal-facing imaging data of at least a portion of an in-vivo occlusal-facing portion of the non-functional natural tooth;
• forming a virtual 3D implant component design model at least partially responsive to the 3D in-vivo imaging data;
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• manufacturing an implant component at least partially responsive to the virtual 3D implant component design model, the implant component including an implant component root portion and an occlusal-facing implant component interface,
• the implant component root portion having a substantially custom-shaped root portion surface of spatial dimension correlating to a corresponding virtual surface of spatial dimension represented in the 3D in-vivo root imaging data,
• the occlusal-facing implant component interface having a substantially custom-shaped interface surface of spatial dimension correlating to a corresponding virtually reduced model of spatial dimension derived from the 3D in-vivo occlusal-facing imaging data.