Socket-Sized Implants for Full Arch Replacement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional full arch teeth replacement methods, such as the All On 4 technique, require significant bone removal and the use of angulated implants, leading to issues like speech difficulties, chronic tissue irritation, and breakage of the prosthetic.

Innovation Solution

A process for preparing a patient's upper or lower jaw for full arch teeth replacement using a dental restoration device without artificial gingiva, involving atraumatic tooth extraction to preserve alveolar bone and keratinized gingiva, followed by the installation of non-angulated socket-sized implants for osseointegration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional full arch teeth replacement methods (All On 4 technique) are used, then the prosthetic can be installed, but significant bone removal is required leading to speech difficulties and chronic tissue irritation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprosthetic stabilityVSAvoidspeech difficulties and tissue irritation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary actions by extracting all teeth atraumatically and preserving the alveolar bone and keratinized gingiva before implant installation. This preliminary bone and tissue preservation allows subsequent implant placement without requiring excessive bone removal, thereby avoiding speech difficulties and tissue irritation while maintaining prosthetic stability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of implant selection by using socket-sized implants that match the preserved bone socket dimensions, rather than requiring standardized angulated implants. This parameter change allows implants to be placed in preserved bone without compromising prosthetic stability, while avoiding the harmful effects of bone removal

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of manufacture

If conventional methods with angulated implants are used, then full arch replacement can be achieved, but the prosthetic is prone to breakage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprosthetic installationVSAvoidprosthetic durability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by using non-angulated implants that are specifically matched to the local socket geometry and bone quality. Each implant is selected to correspond to the specific socket it occupies, creating locally optimized stress distribution that prevents prosthetic breakage while maintaining ease of installation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Stability of the object's composition

If atraumatic extraction is performed to preserve alveolar bone, then original bone and gum line are maintained, but the extraction process must be precisely controlled

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvealveolar bone preservationVSAvoidextraction process control

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by allowing the natural healing process to occur after atraumatic extraction, where the body's own osteoblasts and osteoclasts perform the bone remodeling and socket formation. This self-service approach maintains alveolar bone stability without requiring complex external intervention, while the extracted teeth serve as natural templates for subsequent implant placement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

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

This method allows for a natural teeth feel and look, avoids excessive bone removal, and reduces the risk of prosthetic breakage, while maintaining the patient's original bone and gum line.

Implementation Method 1

waiting a period of time to allow for tissue healing and substantial osteoblast/osteoclasts interaction and remodeling such that newly ossifying bone fills space in each of the post-extraction root sockets

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectOsteoblast/osteoclast interaction and remodeling:

Implementation Method 2

allowing for osseointegration of each of the socket-sized implants into the newly ossifying bone of the corresponding post-extraction root sockets

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectOsseointegration:

Data Source

PatentUS12310818B2Process for preparing a patient's jaw for a full arch teeth replacement

Publication Date: 2025.05.27 TRUBRIDGE DENTAL LLC

AI summary

A process for preparing one of a patient's upper and lower jaw for a full arch teeth replacement may include extracting every tooth in a patient's arch to define a corresponding number of post-extraction root sockets, wherein each tooth is extracted atraumatically to substantially maintain the patient's original alveolar bone and original keratinized gingiva, waiting a period of time to allow for tissue healing and substantial osteoblast/osteoclasts interaction and remodeling such that newly ossifying bone fills space in each of the post-extraction root sockets, installing a plurality of socket-sized implants less than the number of post-extraction root sockets into corresponding post-extraction root sockets, and allowing for osseointegration of each of the socket-sized implants into the newly ossifying bone of the corresponding post-extraction root sockets.