Integrated Bone Foundation Guide for Dental Implant Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dental implant procedures require separate bone foundation guides and surgical guides, leading to increased costs, time, and complexity, and the simultaneous tasks of locating and securing the bone foundation guide can result in improper placement.
Innovation Solution
A combined bone foundation guide system that integrates a bone foundation guide with a dental implant surgical guide, allowing for simultaneous modification of bone structure and implant placement, and optionally includes a tissue spacing gasket for proper prosthesis alignment, using digital dentistry for precise design and assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate bone foundation guides and surgical guides are used, then each guide can be optimized for its specific function, but the overall procedure cost, time, and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the bone foundation guide and surgical implant guide into a single integrated guide structure. The guide body includes a foundation guide portion that interfaces with the bone and an implant guide portion that directs implant placement, eliminating the need for two separate guides and reducing procedural complexity while maintaining functional optimization
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide serves multiple functions: it acts as both a bone foundation guide for leveling and a surgical guide for implant placement. The guide body is designed with multiple functional portions that perform different tasks simultaneously, reducing the number of devices needed while maintaining specialized functionality
2Manufacturing precision
If the bone foundation guide is secured first, then the bone structure can be properly prepared, but the simultaneous tasks of locating and securing can result in improper placement
Solution Approach 1:
The guide includes pre-formed interface structures such as suction cups, magnets, or adhesive surfaces that automatically locate and secure the guide to the bone when placed. This preliminary positioning action occurs before bone modification, ensuring proper placement without requiring simultaneous locating and securing tasks
Solution Approach 2:
The guide incorporates self-securing mechanisms such as suction cups that automatically attach to the bone surface, or magnets that self-align and secure the guide in place. This eliminates the need for manual positioning and securing tasks, allowing the guide to secure itself while maintaining placement accuracy
3Reliability
If multiple separate guides and components are used, then each component can be independently optimized, but the number of steps and patient discomfort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the bone foundation guide, surgical guide, and implant placement functions into a single integrated device. This eliminates multiple separate components and steps, reducing procedure time and patient discomfort while maintaining the optimized functionality of each component through the integrated design
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 being further contoured accept and to guide the cutting of a portion of the bone segment from a dental implant surgical site and as well as to alternatively support a dental implant surgical guide; the dental implant surgical guide; and 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.