Dental Implant Guide Plate With Indicator Rods for Depth Checking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dental implant operations lack effective methods for real-time axial direction and depth checking, leading to potential errors and deviations during implantation, especially in complex anatomical conditions, and preoperative designs cannot be visualized intra-operatively.
Innovation Solution
A method involving optical scanning, Cone Beam Computed Tomography, and 3D printing to create a guide plate with indicator rods for real-time axial direction and depth checking, ensuring the implant is correctly positioned.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If digital static guide plate is used to restrict implant position, then implant positioning precision is improved, but anatomical factors such as hard-bladed cortical bone and loose extraction sockets cause implant and instruments to fall out of position
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces real-time feedback mechanisms through indicator rods that provide visual confirmation of implant position relative to the guide plate. The indicator rods display axial direction and depth information during implantation, allowing immediate detection and correction of positioning deviations caused by anatomical factors
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses indicator rods as intermediary elements between the guide plate and the implant. These indicator rods serve as visual mediators that translate the three-dimensional positioning information into observable two-dimensional indicators, enabling real-time monitoring of implant position stability
2Ease of operation
If reserved gap between guide tube and instrument is increased to ensure smooth placement, then ease of operation is improved, but instrument and implant are unfavorably offset in the guide plate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces purely mechanical positioning reliance with visual indication systems. Instead of depending solely on the physical fit between guide tube and instrument, the system uses indicator rods to provide visual feedback that compensates for the looseness introduced by the reserved gap, allowing operators to maintain ease of operation while achieving precise positioning through visual confirmation
3Ease of operation
If no axial direction and depth checking method is used during operation, then operation simplicity is maintained, but preoperative design cannot be visualized intra-operatively and deviations cannot be identified
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs visual indication through indicator rods that display position information in a color-coded or pattern-coded manner. The indicator rods provide immediate visual feedback about axial direction and depth, transforming abstract three-dimensional positioning data into easily observable visual signals that maintain operational simplicity while preventing information loss
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AI summary
The present disclosure a manufacture method of axial direction and depth checking guide plate for implanting, comprises the following steps: S1: obtaining dentition data by an optical scanner, obtaining a preoperative model; virtually arranging the teeth to obtain a virtual waxing; taking Cone Beam Computed Tomography to obtain the jaw data; S2: determining the type and specification of implant, adjusting the three-dimensional position of the implant; S3: customizing an abutment, and obtaining the abutment data and model data after fitting of the dentition data and the jaw data; S4: constructing abutment cylindrical features, deviating to the labial/buccal side and lingual/palatal side respectively, and constructing the offset cylindrical features again; S5: creating the indicator rod, and fitting with the labial/buccal and lingual/palatal prototype separately to obtain the definitive indicator rod data; S6: designing an occlusal plate and connecting with the indicator rod, completing design of the guide plate, and 3D printing.