Dentistry – Prosthodontics – Holding or positioning denture in mouth
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-11
2002-04-02
Wilson, John J. (Department: 3732)
Dentistry
Prosthodontics
Holding or positioning denture in mouth
C433S173000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06364664
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a dental implant parts in which, even when an engagement portion provided in a head portion to be engaged with an engagement member to rotate the parts is partly damaged by an excessive torque or the like at the time of operation once effected, it is possible to again fasten the parts with a screw or release the parts from the screw, and the operability is good.
2. Conventional Art
As dental prosthetic methods in a missing tooth portion, there have hitherto been generally employed a method by using a bridge and a method by using a partial denture.
According to the method by using a bridge, healthy natural teeth at the both sides of a missing tooth portion are cut to form abutment teeth, and between metallic bodies to be engaged with and fixed to the abutment teeth, a dental prosthesis positioned in the missing tooth portion is fixed. Therefore, this method involves such defects that not only the healthy natural teeth must be cut in order to form the abutment teeth, but also since an occlusion stress is not directly applied to the abutment teeth portion, bone resorption is caused in the subjected site.
Further, according to the method by using a partial denture, one prepared by fixing an artificial tooth to a denture base made of a synthetic resin, etc. is a dental prosthesis. However, in this method, an occlusal force applied to the dental prosthesis is burdened by remaining natural teeth adjacent to the partial denture and/or an oral mucosa. Thus, one may have a sense of incongruity during use of the dental prosthesis, or the denture base may cover gustatory organs exsisted in an oral mucosa tissue to cause torpor of the taste. Moreover, this method involves a serious defect that the use over a long period of time may likely cause alveolar bone resorption.
Thus, as a remedy method for overcoming these defects, there has been developed and practiced a technique of dental implant in which an implant fixture as a retaining and stabilizing device for dental prosthesis is implanted into an implantation hole formed in a maxillary bone of a missing tooth portion and made act for a function of a tooth root in a natural tooth, a fixing device for dental prosthesis is fixed to an abutment fixed in the oral side of the implant fixture to act as a retainer for dental prosthesis, and a dental prosthesis is fixed to the fixing device for dental prosthesis.
In practicing this remedy method by using a dental implant, the dental prosthesis can be fixed without covering an oral mucosa Therefore, at the time of setting the dental prosthesis, neither sense of incongruity nor torpor of the taste is caused. Further, a feeling of use similar to one of using a natural too this obtained Moreover, there is an advantage that since the maxillary bone is imparted with a proper occlusal force, the bone resorption assumed in the case that no implant fixture is implanted can be kept to a minimum. Accordingly, this remedy method has been rapidly developed and applied to not only single tooth deficiency or partial deficiency of two or more teeth but also edentulous jaw (all missing teeth).
As the remedy method by using a dental implant, there is mainly employed a double technique in which, not only the implant fixture implanted in the implantation hole formed in the maxillary bone in the missing tooth portion has been thoroughly bound to the maxillary bone in the missing tooth portion, but also an operated portion by the formation of the implantation hole has been cured, and then a gingival portion in the oral side at which the implant fixture is implanted is again incised, and an abutment acting as a fixing portion of the fixing device for dental prosthesis is fixed to the oral side portion of the implant fixture.
In the remedy method by using a dental implant according to the double technique, the first-stage remedy is carried out in the following manner. That is, a gingiva of a portion of the missing tooth portion in which the implant fixture is to be implanted is cut open to form a gingival flap; an implantation hole for implant fixture is formed in an alveolar bone of the exposed maxillary bone; the implant fixture is implanted in the implantation hole; a female screw opened in the oral side of the implanted implant fixture is engaged with a male screw of an implant cover screw, an end portion in the implant fixture side of which has an external size equal to or larger than an approximately columnar end portion in the oral side of the implant fixture, and which has a truncated cone shape such that the outer diameter increases as it is away from the implant fixture, and a surface in the implant fixture side of which is provided with a concave capable of accommodating a rectangular cylinder portion protruded in an end portion positioned in the oral side of the implant fixture and with the male screw in a central portion thereof, thereby sealing the female screw opened in the oral side of the implant fixture and preventing the bone to grow to the oral side from the implant fixture during the remedy stage; the gingival flap is returned to the original state to cover the alveolar bone of the exposed maxillary bone by the gingival flap; and the gingival flap is then sutured at the cut position.
The second-stage remedy is carried out as follows. That is, after the implant fixture implanted in the implantation hole formed in the maxillary bone in the missing tooth portion has gained an osseous joint in the implantation hole (usually, this period is from about 3 to 6 months), the gingiva is cut open in the portion of the alveolar bone implanted with the implant fixture to form a gingival flap, thereby exposing the implant cover screw; the implant cover screw engaged with the implant fixture is removed; the female screw opened in the oral side of the implant fixture is engaged with a male screw of a healing abutment, an end portion in the implant fixture side of which has an external size approximately equal to an approximately columnar end portion in the oral side of the implant fixture and a length longer than the thickness of the circumferential gingiva, and the implant fixture side of which has a shape substantially the same as in the abutment, and a surface in the implant fixture side of which is provided with a concave capable of accommodating the rectangular cylinder portion protruded in the end portion positioned in the oral side of the implant fixture and with the male screw in a central portion thereof, thereby sealing the female screw opened in the oral side of the implant fixture; the gingival flap is returned to the original state to cover the alveolar bone of the exposed maxillary bone by the gingival flap, while exposing the head side of the healing abutment; and the gingival flap is then sutured at the cut position.
The second-stage remedy is generally completed within about two weeks. In this case, since the gingiva is in the state of coming into contact with the implant fixture side of the healing abutment, the healing abutment is removed in this state, whereby the remedy by using a dental implant is completed.
FIG. 5
is a longitudinal cross-sectional view showing the state after completion of the dental implant remedy. In
FIG. 5
, in the oral side of the implant fixture
1
, is aligned the abutment
2
, the side of the implant fixture
1
of which has a shape approximately the same to the side of the implant fixture
1
of the healing abutment; and an abutment screw
3
is engaged in a female screw of the implant fixture
1
through the abutment
2
, to fix the abutment
2
to the oral side of the implant fixture
1
. And, in the case that a gold cylinder
5
provided with the dental prosthesis
6
on an outer surface thereof is expected to be completed, a male screw of a healing cap for sealing a through-hole opened in the oral side of the abutment
2
is screwed into a female screw provided in the oral side of the abutment screw
3
; after the gold cylinder
5
provided with the dental prosthesis
6
on
GC Corporation
Oblon & Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.
Wilson John J.
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