Bone Foundation Guide with Anchoring Struts for Dental Surgery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dental implant and surgical guide procedures involve separate instruments for bone modification and implant placement, leading to increased costs, manpower, and surgical time, as well as challenges in accurately locating and securing the bone foundation guide during surgeries.
Innovation Solution
A combined bone foundation guide system that includes a bone foundation guide, a dental implant surgical guide, and a tissue spacing gasket, allowing for removably attached anchoring struts that enable the patient to hold the guide in place, thereby freeing the healthcare professional to secure it with fasteners, and facilitating accurate implant placement and prosthesis attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If separate instruments are used for bone modification and implant placement, then each function can be performed with dedicated precision, but surgical time, costs, and manpower requirements 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 body includes a surgical guide portion with implant guide features that allow both bone modification and implant placement to be performed with the same instrument, eliminating the need for separate instruments and reducing surgical time while maintaining functional precision through dedicated guide features for each operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide serves multiple functions: it guides bone modification during foundation preparation and subsequently guides implant placement. The surgical guide portion includes features that accommodate both cutting instruments for bone modification and drilling instruments for implant placement, allowing one instrument to perform multiple sequential functions that previously required separate specialized instruments.
2Manufacturing precision
If separate instruments are used for bone modification and implant placement, then each instrument can be optimized for its specific function, but the number of instruments and complexity of the procedure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the bone foundation guide and dental implant surgical guide into a single integrated instrument. The bone foundation guide body includes a surgical guide portion with implant guide features that allow both bone modification and implant placement to be performed with the same instrument, eliminating the need for separate instruments and reducing surgical time while maintaining functional precision through dedicated guide features for each operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide serves multiple functions: it guides bone modification during foundation preparation and subsequently guides implant placement. The surgical guide portion includes features that accommodate both cutting instruments for bone modification and drilling instruments for implant placement, allowing one instrument to perform multiple sequential functions that previously required separate specialized instruments.
3Measurement precision
If the healthcare professional manually holds and positions the bone foundation guide during surgery, then precise placement can be achieved, but the professional's attention and time are consumed by positioning rather than securing the guide
Solution Approach 1:
The patient actively participates in positioning the bone foundation guide by biting down on the anchoring struts, which have indentations that receive portions of the opposing alveolar ridge. This self-positioning action by the patient frees the healthcare professional to focus on securing the guide with fasteners rather than manually holding and positioning it, improving surgical efficiency while maintaining placement accuracy through the patient's natural bite force and positioning.
4Ease of operation
If the patient actively participates in holding the guide in place by biting on anchoring struts, then the healthcare professional can use both hands to secure the guide, but additional structural components are required
Solution Approach 1:
The bone foundation guide is segmented into distinct functional portions: the bone foundation guide body for positioning, anchoring struts for patient engagement, and a surgical guide portion for implant placement. The anchoring struts are further segmented with specific indentations at their apexes to receive alveolar ridge portions. This segmentation allows the patient's bite force to be applied at specific points while the main body remains stable for fastener attachment, improving surgical efficiency without overwhelming complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The anchoring struts are pre-positioned on the bone foundation guide body before surgery, with their apexes featuring indentations designed to receive portions of the opposing alveolar ridge. This preliminary configuration allows the patient to immediately engage the struts upon placement, providing instant stabilization and freeing the healthcare professional to secure the guide with fasteners without requiring additional positioning steps.
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AI summary
A bone foundation guide system and method, the system could comprise a bone foundation guide comprising a body forming an open surgical space, the body further having a bottom contoured to reversibly affix to exposed bone of a dental surgical site and a top contoured to match a bottom side of a dental implant surgical guide; at least one anchoring strut that removably attaches to the body with an apex of the anchoring strut further denoting an one or more indentations for matching up with and receiving one or more portions of one alveolar ridge that opposes another alveolar ridge supporting the dental surgical site; alternatively to the anchoring struts and a tissue spacing gasket, the dental implant surgical guide that removably connects to the body; and alternatively to the anchoring struts or the dental implant surgical guide, the tissue spacing gasket that removably connects to the body.