117 results about "Dental surgery" patented technology

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to devices for dental surgery and more specifically to dental implant and abutment mating system comprising a dental implant secured in the mouth of a patient and an abutment secured to the dental implant, wherein the dental implant and abutment comprise anti-rotational and taper locking elements.

A dental surgical drill guide assembly and method includes a surgical guide housing and a base frame that fits to both gum tissue and one or multiple small areas of jawbone. The apparatus may be configured to accurately place dental implants according to planned positions. Such apparatus may increase the stability of the surgical guide by clasping and / or contacting the jawbone, while improving the overall fit and minimizing the need of invasive surgery and flapping by also clasping and / or contacting selected areas of the gum tissue at the same time. Self-locking alignment members aid in easy removal, and re-installation, of the surgical guide housing to the base frame.

A dental anesthesia simulator for dental procedure training is provided comprising a dental mannequin constructed of an acrylic material, comprising an upper and lower jaw portion covered by replaceable mucous membrane textures; a flexible position sensor for determining the location of an instrument, wherein the sensor means is located between the upper and lower jaw portions and the replaceable mucous membrane textures; and a processor means for processing information from the flexible position sensor regarding the location of the instrument.

A dental implant fixture and abutment system for use in restorative dental surgery comprises a thin coating, preferably of gold, applied to certain regions of the implant fixture and to certain regions of the abutment post, so as to mask or camouflage the unattractive dark root and crown appearance of prior art dental restorations which is caused primarily by the innate gray-black chroma of the titanium alloys out of which such restorations are conventionally fabricated. Optionally, the implant fixture may also be shaped such that, upon placement in the mouth, the transgingival portions of the implant fixture are more coronal on the palatal aspect and more apical on the facial aspect, thereby accommodating the differences in the residual alveolar ridge morphology and allowing for maintenance of peri-implant bone height post implant placement. Both one-stage and two-stage dental implant systems having such characteristics are disclosed, as are dental restoration systems in which a prosthetic tooth device or crown is combined with a one-stage or two-stage dental implant having such a characteristics.

A robotic system includes a base, a grounding arm, a working arm, and one or more sensors. The grounding arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled to a fixed structure within the mouth of the patient for establishing an origin for the robotic system. The working arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled with one or more tools for use during an installation of a dental implant in the mouth. The one or more sensors are for monitoring positions of the grounding arm and / or the working arm and to generate positional data that is used to create a post-operative virtual three-dimensional model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient.

A dental lamp particularly for medical and dental surgeries, comprising an orientable arm that is rigidly coupled at one of its ends to a fixed structure and has the opposite end rotatably associated with a box-like body provided with a screen and a light source. The light source comprises a plurality of luminescent diodes, known as LEDs, which are aligned with respective guides for the emitted light beam, the beam emission directions of all the diodes being substantially convergent.

An improved arch bar for dental surgery is formed from a strip of malleable material. The strip is the shape of a right angle having a splint portion and a retainer portion. A series of apertures extend through the splint portion and the retainer portion with the longitudinal edges of the strip being continuous and smooth. The splint portion is attached to the bone and the retainer portion forms an outwardly projecting shelf having a smooth surface. The soft tissue of the mouth is protected from ligature wires threaded through the apertures by the shelf.

The invention concerns a security device comprising a stop member for a rotary drilling instrument used in particular in dental surgery, said stop member capable of being positioned at a desired depth of drilling and preventing said depth from being exceeded. The two elements drilling instrument (10, 10A) and the stop member (20; 30; 20A; 30A) comprise coupling means directly or indirectly linking them together and co-operating means capable of transforming their movement, such that when the device is operating, the drilling instrument (10, 10A) is retracted rearwards relative to the drilling direction and to the position of the stop member under the action of said means when the front part (23; 33; 23A; 33A) of the stop member comes in contact with a neighbouring surface (9). The co-operating means preferably consist of a screw-nut system, the direction of the thread(s) of said system and the rotating direction of the drill being opposite. A device comprising a gauge (50) containing a piston (55) enables to pre-calibrate and store the desired drilling depth.

A disposable cushioned aspirator which forms part of a dental or medical aspirating system. The disposable cushioned aspirator appliance described herein is intended principally to be used in dental procedures where bodily fluids and rinse water is evacuated from a patient's mouth, but the invention has application in medical procedures and various other applications as well. An elongate tubular element having a patient end and a connection end is exteriorly lined with a layer of soft cushioning material such as a soft polymer material, rubber or a porous foam material to protect the soft tissues in and around the mouth of a patient. The elongate tubular aspirator is capable of being manually bent from an initially straight configuration to a curved or other desired configuration and is provided with a structural member extending along its length and being pliable to permit bending and yet of sufficient structural integrity to maintain the aspirator in the desired configuration during use. The structural member is preferably a wire element which is embedded within or attached to the elongate tubular element.

The articulation-navigation equipment for dental surgery includes the measuring parts which take basically the relation between the patient's face and teeth are arranged; the bite forks which is bite in the oral cavity of the patient and fixes the bite plane; the positioning wire for camper, extending to right and left ears which measures and takes the camper plane C; the orbital pointing pin which measures and takes one of orbital; the pointing rod for median line which measures and takes the median line M; the orbital points which measures and takes the right and left orbital on the frankfult plane F; the pointing rod for bite plane which measures and takes the bite plane O; and the screw which is screwed on the nut for adjusting the height, supporting the support base. Therefore, it can measure and take aesthetic point and basic point quickly in a short time in spite of the face bow without practice, and it has a small size and lightweight.

The present invention incorporates new materials for bone regeneration, methods for their manufacture, and application in traumatology surgery, maxillo facial surgery, dental surgery, orthognatic surgery, endodontics, ophthalmology, neurosurgery and / or osteoporotic processes, and other indications where bone regeneration is required. In particular, the present invention incorporates synthetic materials with a 20% to a 95%, preferably between 40% and 90% in mass of monetite [Ca1-XMXHPO4, where 0≦x≦0.05, and where M can be a divalent metallic ion], and which in their final composition incorporate between 5% and 80%, preferably between 0% and 60%, in mass of bioactive calcium compounds chosen from calcium phosphates and between 5% and 80% in total mass of bioactive silicon compounds chosen from calcium silicates and / or bioactive silica glasses and gels.

The invention relates to an oral material, in particular to a light transmission gradually changed zirconium oxide material for dental surgery and a preparation process thereof, the light transmission gradually changed zirconium oxide material is an oral material of a zirconium oxide porcelain block used for repairing porcelain tooth in dental surgery and is prepared from following two raw materials of 3Y-TZP and (4-6) Y-PSZ according to a mass ratio of 4: 1 to 2: 1. In the invention, the requirements of anterior teeth cutting end of a young patient on light transmission of the light transmission gradually changed zirconium oxide material can be satisfied. Moreover, after processing into dental corona, porcelain is not required to be applied, therefore, a porcelain fracture phenomenon caused by different expansion coefficients between zirconium oxide and decorative porcelain can be avoided. Meanwhile, the preparation method is simple, the cost is low and the quality is stable.

The present invention incorporates new materials for bone regeneration, methods for their manufacture, and application in traumatology surgery, maxillofacial surgery, dental surgery, orthognatic surgery, endodontics, ophthalmology, neurosurgery and / or osteoporotic processes, and other indications where bone regeneration is required. In particular, the present invention incorporates synthetic materials with a 20% to a 95%, preferably between 40% and 90% in mass of monetite [Ca1-XMXHPO4, where 0≦x≦0.05, and where M can be a divalent metallic ion], and which in their final composition incorporate between 5% and 80%, preferably between 0% and 60%, in mass of bioactive calcium compounds chosen from calcium phosphates and between 5% and 80% in total mass of bioactive silicon compounds chosen from calcium silicates and / or bioactive silica glasses and gels.

A robotic system includes a base, a grounding arm, a working arm, and one or more sensors. The grounding arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled to a fixed structure within the mouth of the patient for establishing an origin for the robotic system. The working arm extends from the base and is configured to be coupled with one or more tools for use during an installation of a dental implant in the mouth. The one or more sensors are for monitoring positions of the grounding arm and / or the working arm and to generate positional data that is used to create a post-operative virtual three-dimensional model of at least a portion of the mouth of the patient.

The present invention discloses a precise and practical surgical guide system and process for dental surgical implants. According to some aspects, the system implements a reference point throughout the design and procedure to provide one or more guides for a specific part of the procedure. In some embodiments, the digital and physical data utilized in the design and planning, and production of the guide system may be implemented in virtual reality and / or augmented reality systems.

Impression trays for taking dental impression of a subject are discussed herein with particular discussion extended to impression trays know as triple trays. Triple trays are so coined for their ability to simultaneously capture the upper and lower impressions and the bite registration of a subject during a same dental procedure. The trays described elsewhere herein incorporate features that strengthen or increase the rigidity of the frame so that an impression taken of the dentition of the subject using one of the trays described elsewhere herein is not distorted and is therefore an accurate reflection of the true dentition.

The invention discloses an augmented reality method for dental surgery and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring a position and a posture of a first visual marker and a second visual marker; obtaining a transformation matrix between a second coordinate system and a first coordinate system according to the position and posture of the first visual marker and the second visual marker; obtaining an coordinate set of an object to-be-located at the first coordinate system according to the coordinate set of the object to-be-located in a virtual coordinate system, a transformation matrix between the virtual coordinate system and the second coordinate system, and the transformation matrix between the second coordinate system and the first coordinate system; obtaining a pixel coordinate set of the object to-be-located according to the coordinate set of the object to-be-located in the first coordinate system and a projection matrix of the first coordinate system to the pixel coordinatesystem, and displaying the object to-be-located on a two-dimensional image according to the pixel coordinate set. The augmented reality method and the device for dental surgery provided by the embodiments of the present invention improve the positioning accuracy of the object to-be-located.

An improved retractor device which includes a first main flat arm portion for extending along the outer surface of a patients cheek, that can be grasped by the dentist or hygienist performing the procedure; (or even in some cases, the patient); a second arm that extends into the mouth in use and is attached to the main arm at an acute angle of approximately fifty degrees and having that connecting area gently curved convexly from upper lip to lower lip and concavely from the intraoral to the extraoral portions so as to present a atraumatic surface to oral commissure, and the intraoral arm being convex as it extends to the posterior part of the mouth and getting narrower as it goes posteriorly and ending in a high convex end portion that extends behind the last tooth to reflect the cheek outwardly and posteriorly to produce an increased volume of space for conducting the dental procedure in a dry field and with greater and better comfort, access and visualization.

An improved arch bar for dental surgery is formed from a strip of malleable material. The strip is the shape of a right angle having a splint portion and a retainer portion. A series of apertures extend through the splint portion and the retainer portion with the longitudinal edges of the strip being continuous and smooth. The splint portion is attached to the bone and the retainer portion forms an outwardly projecting shelf having a smooth surface. The soft tissue of the mouth is protected from ligature wires threaded through the apertures by the shelf.

The present invention is a method of achieving fast onset of pain relief for acute pain in a patient in need thereof comprising orally administering a unitary formulation (or oral dosage form) containing an effective analgesic amount of (a) oxycodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and (b) ibuprofen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Preferably, the unitary formulation contains (a) oxycodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and (b) ibuprofen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at a weight ratio of from about 1:20 to about 1:100 and more preferably about 1:40 to about 1:80, based on the weights of molar equivalents of oxycodone hydrochloride and ibuprofen, respectively. Preferably, an amount of oxycodone and ibuprofen effective to provide partial or complete pain relief within 30 minutes is administered. More preferably, the amount is sufficient to provide partial or complete pain relief within 25 minutes. It has been discovered that administration of an oral dosage form containing both oxycodone and ibuprofen provides earlier onset of pain relief than administration of either active ingredient alone. Moreover, the earlier onset of pain relief may be attributable at least in part to administration of a single dosage form containing both active ingredients as opposed to administering oxycodone and ibuprofen in separate oral dosage forms (i.e., administration of a first dosage form containing oxycodone and a second dosage form containing ibuprofen). The method of the present invention is particularly useful for treating acute postoperative pain, including, but not limited to, moderate and / or severe acute postoperative pain (such as that resulting from dental surgery).

The disclosed subject matter refers to hydroxyapatite and bioglass-based pellets of homogeneous size and spherical shape, whose interconnective porous structure, in the micrometer range, allows for an enhanced osteoconductivity and osteointegration, with specific application as a synthetic bone graft and to the respective production process. The production process is based on the pharmaceutical technology of extrusion and spheronization employing a porogenic agent and applying a sinterization stage in the presence of a vitreous liquid phase, which reverts on behalf of a higher reproducibility, superior yield and greater production capacity. Therefore, the disclosed subject matter is directed to the production of hydroxyapatite and bioglass-based pellets with applications in osteoregenerative medicine, particularly in the fields of orthopaedic surgery, maxillofacial surgery, dental surgery, implantology and as tissue engineering scaffolds

The present invention relates to a light guide for a lamp for dentistry procedures. The light guide provides an optical channel between a light source and a dental substrate. The light guide may be a one-patient use light guide including a recording medium to record the time used. The light guide further provides protection for a patient's soft tissues during treatment.

The invention relates to a directional orifice carbide biological ceramic material and a preparation method thereof, in particular to a directional orifice carbide biological ceramic material and a preparation method with the structure characteristics of the biological orifice of artificial simulation. The directional pore carbide biological ceramic material comprises carbide and vasiform orifices with the orifice sizes from 1 to 20 microns directionally distributed in the carbide, the porosity of the orifice is from 20 percent to 70 percent and the orifice structure is anisotropic and connected by millipores. The preparation method is as follows: first applying the method of freezing in directional movement to the colloidal dispersion system containing a ceramic precursor to solidify a dispersant under control and along with a regulated direction and applying a vacuum drying process to get the directional orifice dried gel containing ceramic precursors and implementing the heat treatment on the dried gel to get the directional orifice carbide biological ceramic material. The invention greatly improves the homogeneity of the components in the material, thereby expanding the scope of application of the product. The material can be applied to orthopedics, plastic surgeon, dental surgery, cardiovascular surgery, ophthalmosurgery, ear-nose-throat department, general surgery and the like.

An apparatus for providing implantation sites for dental surgery, comprising:a reference template, which incorporates one or more first cylindrical surgical stents having a first diameter,a series of additional surgical stents, each having a different diameter which decreases with respect to one of the first stents, the additional stents being contoured so that they are insertable reversibly in order one inside the other,a series of pilot burrs, each of which has a diameter that is compatible with a corresponding one of the surgical stents,a series of expanders-compactors and of osteotomes, each of which has a diameter that is compatible with a corresponding one of the surgical stents,a predefined intra-bone implant.

A root canal irrigation needle assembly used in the field of dental surgery and intended to be connected to an injection syringe includes a pipette and a connection sleeve.

The disclosure provides for an improved system for utilizing matrix bands in dental restorations. The system allows for maintaining or recreating close interproximal contacts between teeth following restoration. A matrix band is provided which retains in place a contact matrix that upon completion of the restoration is tightly bound to the filling matrix deposited into the cavity, and thus maintains or recreates a tight contact with adjacent teeth. The system provides an improved system for use in dental surgery, and by implementing the kit provided clinicians are able to provide enhanced results following restoration with a minimum of effort.

The invention discloses a wind and light dental hand-piece with electric power storage module, relates to the technical field of a medical apparatus used in dental surgery, in particular to the providing of electric energy required by lighting of an LED lamp in the dental hand-piece, and solves the problem that the hand-piece cannot illuminate when an air flow generator is in an off state. The dental hand-piece is a quick or slow connect dental hand-piece which comprises the electric power storage module, wherein the electric power storage module of the quick connect dental hand-piece is arranged in an adapter; the electric power storage module of the slow connect dental hand-piece is arranged in a handle; when an air flow passes through a pipeline of the dental hand-piece, the air flow generator provides power for the LED lamp when the air flow generator is in a normal working state and also provides charging voltage for the electric power storage module; when the dental hand-piece is in an abnormal working state, the hand-piece does not need to be started when the treatment effect or cleaning effect needs to be checked; the electric power storage module directly provides power for the LED lamp; and thus the dental hand-piece is convenient to use and avoids resource waste.

The present invention relates to a method of delivering local anesthetic after dental extraction surgery. The present invention relates to packing the tooth socket with a tinned release local anesthetic which is coordinated with an initial local anesthetic and which lasts up to 5 days. The socket can be surgically sealed or the implant can act as the sealing means.

The invention relates to a medical apparatus for dental surgery, and more specifically to a fang removing device, comprising a helical auger with its lower end provided with tapping screws and its upper end provided with a connecting screw rod. The helical auger is characterized in that: a nut to the helical auger is screw threaded on the upper part of the connecting screw rod; the middle part ofan elastic rod is provided with a long-strip-like major through hole and the helical auger is installed through the hole. The fang moving device in the invention has a simple construction, is convenient for use, can remove fangs fast at a time, leaves a small wound in operation, and enables patients to suffer little pain.

Safety eyewear that is particularly suitable for patients undergoing medical or dental procedures in reclining or supine positions is disclosed. The safety eyewear has a frame configured to rest over a face. The frame includes a pair of lenses separated from one another by a bridge. The lenses may be configured to block certain harmful wavelengths of light used in dental curing lights, patient overhead lights, and lasers. One of both of the frame and the pair of lenses may curve in a posterior direction along inferior edges so as to terminate closely proximate to the face. Left and right temple arms extend generally straight in the posterior direction from respective left and right sides of the frame. A nasion pad is coupled to the bridge of the frame and extends in the posterior direction from the bridge to make contact with the patient's nasion.