Integrated Bone Foundation Guide for Dental Surgery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bone reduction guides and dental implant surgical guides are separate instruments, leading to increased costs, manpower, and surgical time, as they are designed and used independently, which can be streamlined into a single multipurpose device to enhance the efficiency and affordability of dental procedures.
Innovation Solution
A combination bone foundation guide that integrates a bone reduction guide and a dental implant surgical guide, allowing the dental implant surgical guide to directly attach to the bone foundation guide, along with a cutting containment guard to provide precise bone reshaping and implant placement, reducing the need for separate guides and enhancing surgical precision.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate bone reduction guide and dental implant surgical guide are used, then each guide can be optimized for its specific function, but the overall surgical time, cost, and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the bone reduction guide and dental implant surgical guide into a single integrated guide structure. The guide body includes both a bone reduction portion with cutting guides and an implant placement portion with implant guides, allowing both procedures to be performed using one device rather than requiring separate guides, thereby reducing surgical time and procedural complexity while maintaining functional capabilities of both guides
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated guide is designed to perform multiple functions: it serves as both a bone reduction guide with cutting containment features and an implant placement guide with precise positioning capabilities. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate specialized guides while optimizing both bone preparation and implant placement procedures through a single universal device
2Ease of manufacture
If separate bone reduction guide and dental implant surgical guide are used, then each guide can be independently designed, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges two separate guide instruments into one integrated guide structure that includes both bone reduction and implant placement functionality. This consolidation reduces the total number of instruments from two separate guides to one unified device, simplifying the overall system while maintaining the design flexibility needed for both procedures through modular guide elements within the single structure
3Reliability
If separate bone reduction guide and dental implant surgical guide are used, then each guide can be optimized for its specific procedure, but the manpower and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated guide performs both bone reduction and implant placement functions in a single device, eliminating the need for multiple specialized guides and reducing the manpower required to manage, sterilize, and position multiple separate instruments. The unified design simplifies the surgical workflow while maintaining procedure-specific optimization through dedicated guide elements for each function within the single device
Data Source
AI summary
A bone foundation guide with a bone foundation guide body contoured to guide a cutting implement to alter an exposed bone of a dental surgical site. The bone foundation guide body may form an encircled open surgical space that continuously connects a top and a bottom of the bone foundation guide body. The bottom may be further contoured to affix to the exposed bone of the dental surgical site while the top is further adapted to support a dental implant surgical guide or in the alternative a cutting containment guard. The cutting containment guard may have a cutting channel for receiving the exposed bone when the cutting containment guard is combined with the bone foundation guide body. The combination forms a cutting slot for guiding a cutting edge of a cutting implement to alter the exposed bone from the dental implant surgical guide.