Integrated Bone Foundation Guide for Dental Implant Surgery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dental implant and surgical guide systems require separate instruments for bone modification and implant placement, leading to increased costs, manpower, and surgical time, and pose challenges in accurately positioning and securing the bone foundation guide during procedures.
Innovation Solution
A combined bone foundation guide system that integrates a bone foundation guide for modifying the bone structure and a dental implant surgical guide, allowing for stackable operation and inclusion of a tissue spacing gasket for proper prosthesis placement, with anchoring struts for patient-assisted stabilization and bite alignment verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate instruments are used for bone modification and implant placement, then each instrument can be optimized for its specific function, but surgical time and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the bone foundation guide and dental implant surgical guide into a single integrated instrument. The bone foundation guide includes a body with cutting guide features and an implant guide feature that receives the implant surgical guide, allowing both bone modification and implant placement guidance to be performed with one device, thereby reducing surgical time while maintaining functional optimization through dedicated guide features.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide serves multiple functions: it guides bone cutting during foundation preparation, guides implant placement, and provides reference features for both procedures. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate instruments while maintaining the precision required for each specific task.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate instruments are used for bone modification and implant placement, then each instrument can be independently designed, but manpower and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges two separate instruments into one integrated guide that includes both bone modification guidance features and implant placement guidance features. This reduces the quantity of instruments from two to one while maintaining design flexibility through modular guide features that can be independently configured.
3Manufacturing precision
If the bone foundation guide is placed and secured during surgery, then accurate bone modification can be achieved, but positioning and securing challenges arise
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated guide includes self-aligning features and stabilization mechanisms that allow the device to automatically position itself on the bone surface. The guide features are designed to engage with anatomical landmarks, reducing the difficulty of positioning and securing the device while maintaining accurate bone modification guidance.
4Measurement precision
If multiple guides are used sequentially, then each surgical step can be precisely controlled, but surgical complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple guide functions into a single integrated device that provides both bone modification guidance and implant placement guidance simultaneously. This reduces the number of guides from two to one while maintaining precise control over each surgical step through dedicated guide features within the integrated device.
Data Source
AI summary
A bone foundation guide system has a bone foundation guide including a body that is contoured to reversibly affix to a bone segment of a dental implant surgical site. The body is further contoured to guide the cutting of a portion of the bone segment from a dental implant surgical site and alternatively support a dental implant surgical guide. The body is further contoured to support a bone foundation guide prosthesis as an alternative to the dental implant surgical guide. The bone foundation guide prosthesis combines with the body to accommodate the bone segment portion as placed through the body prior to the bone segment portion being removed from the dental implant site through the use of the body.