IP Library Granted Patent US 8,545,222
Granted Patent B2
US 8,545,222 · App. 12/255,471 · Granted Oct 1, 2013

Method of dental implant restoration

Inventor: Chan Qian Wang (Beachwood, OH)
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Patent No.
US 8,545,222
App. No.
12/255,471
Granted
Oct 1, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides a method for dental restoration including direct modification of an abutment in the oral environment to obtain the ideal shape, contour, and margin placement. The method is featured with directly measuring the shortest distance X 1 between a location L 1 on the surface of the abutment and the surface of a surrounding object, and increasing the shortest distance X 1 until it is not less than a predetermined value. The invention exhibits numerous merits such as simplified procedure, cost-effectiveness, reduction of laboratory adjustment, reduction of chair time, and reduction of office visits.

Claims (13)

1. A method for dental restoration in an oral environment comprising:

(i) placing a sub-crown member comprising an abutment component and a dental implant component into a jawbone, wherein said abutment component and said dental implant component are two separate components and are connected and secured to each other, and wherein said abutment component comprises stainless steel, gold, silver, platinum, iron, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium; oxides; carbides such as silicon carbide; borides; nitrides; silicides; salts such as aluminosilicates, silicates such as lithium silicate, aluminates, phosphates, fluorates, zirconates, and titanates; ceramic materials such as a porcelain, a white stone containing alumina, and a glass; polymeric materials; any composites thereof such as inorganic-inorganic composites optionally bound by an organic binder, and polymeric-inorganic composites; and any combination thereof;

(ii) directly measuring the shortest distance X 1 between a location L 1 on the surface of said abutment component and the surface of an object surrounding said abutment component in the oral environment;

(iii) comparing value X 1 with a predetermined value Y 1 , wherein Y 1 >0;

(iv) if X 1 <Y 1 , directly modifying the abutment component on its location L 1 , in the oral environment, to increase said shortest distance X 1 until X 1 ≧Y 1 , in which the modifying of the abutment component is performed by a tool selected from a bur or a rotary file; diamonds; multi-use diamond dental bur; a dental carbide bur made of e.g. tungsten carbide steel; a dental sintered diamond bur; conical milling burs; a dental diamond disc; a tungsten carbide cutter; parallel milling cutter; dental steel bur; and any combinations thereof, wherein before the application of the tool, the abutment component is pretreated to weaken strength on at least location L 1 of the abutment component; and the pretreatment is selected from vaporization, salvation or dissolution with a solvent, a chemical reaction such as etching and degradation using reagents such as HF, a base, an acid, and a complexing agent;

(v) optionally repeating steps (ii)-(iv) on one or more of other locations Ln on the surface of said abutment component with corresponding shortest distances Xn and corresponding predetermined values Yn, wherein Yn>0, n is an integer, and n≧2;

(vi) directly producing a crown based on the shape of the modified abutment component; and

(vii) attaching the crown to the modified abutment component.

2. The method according to claim 1 , in which the object surrounding said abutment component in the oral environment is selected from a periodontal tissue, a gum tissue, a tooth, and a prosthesis.

3. The method according to claim 1 , in which the abutment has a hardness H≧10 K.H.N. (Knoop Hardness Number) under the ASTM D-1474 standard or a hardness equivalent thereto.

4. The method according to claim 1 , in which the dental implant component comprises a material selected from the group consisting of pure titanium, titanium oxide (TiO), titanium alloy such as TiAl 6 V 4 alloy, stainless steel, zirconium, cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloy, polymeric material, and any combination thereof.

5. The method according to claim 1 , in which the abutment component is pre-manufactured and comprises a material that is rigid, bio-compatible, and optically similar to dentin.

6. The method according to claim 1 , in which the crown comprises a material selected from porcelain, metal, metal alloy, ceramic material, polymeric material, and any combination thereof.

Assignments (5)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 5, 2019
From: ZUGA MEDICAL, INC.
To: SICHUAN PROVINCE HEALTH PENSION INDUSTRY EQUITY INVESTMENT FUND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP; SICHUAN PROVINCE TRANSFORMATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS EQUITY INVESTMENT FUND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
Reel/Frame 050283/0957 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 2, 2017
From: ZUGA MEDICAL, INC
To: THE DIRECTOR OF THE OHIO DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AGENCY
Reel/Frame 041592/0018 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2016
From: SPD SILICON VALLEY BANK, CO., LTD.
To: ZUGA MEDICAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 037619/0603 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 1, 2015
From: ZUGA MEDICAL, INC.
To: SPD SILICON VALLEY BANK, CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 037183/0080 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 25, 2011
From: WANG, CHAN QIAN
To: ZUGA MEDICAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 026810/0980 →
Continuity (1)
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