Integrated Bone Foundation and Dental Implant Guide System
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Solution Overview
Problem
The production process of bone foundation guides and dental implant surgical guides is complex and time-consuming, requiring separate instruments and precise alignment for accurate bone level determination at dental implant sites.
Innovation Solution
A bone foundation guide system comprising a foundation guide body with buccal and lingual walls connected by bridge ends, allowing reversible affixation to bone segments, and a complementary dental implant surgical guide with a separation plane defining removal and augmentation levels, facilitating quick and accurate bone level determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate instruments are used for bone foundation guide and dental implant surgical guide, then each guide can be optimized for its specific function, but the production process becomes complex and time-consuming with alignment difficulties
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the bone foundation guide and dental implant surgical guide into a single integrated instrument. The guide body includes both the foundation guide portion with abutment portions for bone attachment and the surgical guide portion with implant guide sleeves, eliminating the need for separate instruments and their complex alignment procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide serves multiple functions: it provides stable attachment to the bone foundation via abutment portions, guides bone removal and augmentation procedures, and simultaneously directs implant placement through integrated surgical guide portions with drill sleeves, replacing multiple specialized tools with one universal instrument.
2Reliability
If separate instruments are used for bone foundation guide and dental implant surgical guide, then each guide can be optimized for its specific function, but the alignment for accurate bone level determination becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the two separate guides into one integrated instrument, the patent eliminates the alignment interface between separate components. The single guide body inherently maintains precise spatial relationships between the foundation guide portion and surgical guide portion, ensuring accurate bone level determination without alignment difficulties.
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional separate guide production process is used, then each guide can be individually customized, but the overall production time is excessive
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated guide is produced as a single customized instrument rather than assembling or aligning multiple separate guides. This single-step customization process reduces production time while maintaining the ability to tailor the guide's geometry, abutment portions, and implant guide sleeves to specific patient requirements.
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AI summary
A bone foundation guide system (10) for a dental implant surgical site (6) comprises a bone foundation guide (20) and a dental implant surgical guide (40) with an open surgical space (6) in between. The top of the foundation guide body is contoured and comprises an upper surface to attach a bottom surface of the dental implant surgical guide (40) as well as to define a removal and augmentation level and to guide the removal or augmentation or both of bone segments from the dental surgical site (6) via a separation plane (60). Said separation plane (60) comprises a central area predetermined to define an implant depth of bores for anchoring implants, and further comprises an inclined area extending from all side ends of the central area towards the first bridge end and the second bridge end raising above the removal and augmentation level of the jaw bone (7).