Bone foundation guide system with reduction guide
View Patent ↗A bone foundation guide system for a dental implant surgical site has a bone foundation guide and a dental implant surgical guide with an open surgical space therebetween. The top of the foundation guide body is contoured and has an upper surface to attach a bottom surface of the dental implant surgical guide as well as to define a removal and augmentation level and to guide the removal and/or augmentation of bone segments from the dental surgical site via a separation plane. The separation plane has a central area predetermined to define an implant depth of bores for anchoring implants, and further has an inclined area extending from all side ends of the central area towards the first bridge end and the second bridge end raising above the removal and augmentation level of the jaw bone.
1. A computer-implemented method for producing a bone foundation guide system, the method comprising the steps of:
gathering data of a three-dimensional model of the jaw bone and the oral cavity of a patient and storing said data in a computer memory;
defining position and orientation of at least two drill bore positions in the three-dimensional model data and storing said data in the computer memory;
defining a three-dimensional model of the bone foundation guide system comprising a bone foundation guide and a dental implant surgical guide, wherein the model of the bone foundation guide comprises a foundation guide body having a foundation guide buccal wall and a foundation guide lingual wall that are continuously connected by a first bridge end and a second bridge end forming an open surgical space connecting a top of the foundation guide body with a bottom of the foundation guide body, wherein the foundation guide buccal wall and the foundation guide lingual wall comprise abutment portions to reversibly affix the foundation guide body to at least a portion of a bone segment at the dental implant surgical site, wherein the top of the foundation guide body is contoured and comprises an upper surface to attach a bottom surface of the dental implant surgical guide as well as to define a removal and augmentation level and to guide the removal or augmentation or both of bone segments from the dental surgical site;
defining a separation plane between the bone foundation guide and the dental implant surgical guide as three-dimensional model data comprising a central area and connecting inclination areas at the sides towards the bridge ends, wherein the central area plane is defined as jaw bone level to be reached through reduction or augmentation based on a parameter based on implant depth of predetermined drill bore positions, wherein the inclination plane area connecting at the central area plane is defined on a length of the inclination plane area and a height over the implant depth or over the level of the central area and is extending from all side ends of the central area towards the first bridge end and the second bridge end raising above the removal and augmentation level of the jaw bone and storing said data in a computer memory; and
transforming the stored data into signal data for a production machine chosen from the group encompassing a rapid-prototyping apparatus or a milling apparatus, for the production of the bone foundation guide system.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the separation plane comprising the central area and the inclination plane area is determined following a spline based calculation.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the foundation guide buccal wall and the foundation guide lingual wall of the bone foundation guide is predetermined so that there are no backcuts in the direction of insertion of the bone foundation guide by filtering out the portions of the boundary curves of the reduction surface which would otherwise constitute undercuts in the direction of insertion of the bone foundation guide.