Breakable Coupling Dental Implant Packaging for Sterility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Dental implants face contamination and reduced hydrophilicity when stored for long periods due to exposure to air, leading to decreased biological activity and increased risk of infection during handling.
Innovation Solution
A breakable coupling type dental implant packaging container with a sealing cap and casing that maintains a sterile environment, allowing for ultraviolet treatment without contamination, using materials that do not degrade hydrophilicity and enabling easy hydrophile treatment, ensuring the implant remains sterile and bioactive for extended storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the implant is stored in packaging after ultraviolet treatment to maintain superhydrophilicity, then the implant can be kept sterile, but the superhydrophilicity is reduced over time and the implant becomes contaminated when drawn out from packaging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies this principle by creating a sealed packaging environment that isolates the implant from air and contaminants. The packaging system maintains a controlled internal atmosphere that preserves the implant's superhydrophilic surface properties over extended storage periods, eliminating the need to draw the implant out of packaging before use.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the packaging system into separate functional components: a sealed container that maintains the sterile environment, and a breaking mechanism that allows controlled access. The implant remains segmented from the external environment until the moment of use, when the package is broken open and the implant can be removed without exposure to air.
2Reliability
If the implant is drawn out from packaging to undergo ultraviolet treatment again, then superhydrophilicity can be restored, but the implant may come into contact with air and become contaminated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing the ultraviolet treatment and superhydrophilic modification before sealing the implant in the sterile packaging. The implant is prepared in advance with the desired surface properties, and the packaging is designed to maintain these properties throughout storage, eliminating the need for repeated treatments or handling that would expose the implant to air.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If the implant is stored for long periods in conventional packaging, then availability is improved, but contamination probability increases and biological activity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an inert, sealed packaging environment that protects the implant from air exposure and contamination during long-term storage. This controlled atmosphere preserves the implant's biological activity and superhydrophilic surface properties, allowing extended storage durations without compromising reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a disposable sealed packaging system that is discarded after single use. The packaging itself has a limited functional life but effectively protects the implant during the entire storage period, after which the sealed unit is discarded and a new sterile package is used, ensuring continuous protection of biological activity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The container keeps the implant sterile and bioactive, reducing contamination risks and maintaining superhydrophilicity, enhancing initial bone formation and reducing integration time by preventing exposure to air and maintaining hydrophilicity during storage and handling.
Implementation Method 1
a sealing cap including the implant fixing part; and a casing, and the sealing cap and the casing are coupled to each other to form an inner space
Implementation Method 2
The implant modified and stored as described above has an enhanced affinity with body fluid and blood on the surface, and can achieve the effects of excellent initial bone formation and a reduced bone integration period after an implant procedure
Data Source
AI summary
An embodiment of the present invention provides a dental implant packaging container comprising: an implant fixing unit to which an implant can be detachably coupled; a sealing cap including the implant fixing unit; and a casing, wherein: the sealing cap and the casing form an inner space together; the casing has a hollow cylindrical shape and is partially opened; the inner space is formed by coupling the sealing cap to the opened portion of the casing; and the implant is “breakably coupled” to the implant fixing unit.