Dentistry – Method or material for testing – treating – restoring – or...
Patent
1996-03-01
1998-11-24
Lewis, Ralph A.
Dentistry
Method or material for testing, treating, restoring, or...
433173, 623 16, A61C 800, A61F 228, A61L 3100
Patent
active
058398996
ABSTRACT:
A method of growing jaw bone and the related guided-tissue regeneration plate support and fixation system employed in the method where an isolated and protected space free from tissue impingement, occlusal loading, chewing forces or muscular pressure is created between the periosteum and the jaw bone. This space is created by first placing either a dental implant or a guided-tissue regeneration plate support and fixation system tenting-type support screw into the jaw bone. The plate portion of the guided-tissue regeneration plate support and fixation system, preferably made out of Grade 1 commercially pure titanium, being thicker and more rigid in the center, more supportive area and thinner at the periphery is either snapped-down onto the head of the support screw or onto a specialized and modified healing screw of a dental implant which has a receiver cap or is screwed directly into a dental implant. The plate is then bent and molded into the proper shape. In essence, the pliable, moldable plate is both supported by the dental implant or support screw and fixed into place by the same screw creating both support and fixation of the plate giving a precise space below its surface to grow bone. This plate portion can be solid or perforated, and it can be porous or non-porous.
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Lewis Ralph A.
Phillips James H.
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