Patent ID: 9713513
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: A61C

Claim:
1. A dental implant comprising: a corpus having a longitudinal axis, a first end, a second end and an external surface having a first diameter and a conical cross-section at the second end; a post accommodation at the first end, the post accommodation having a first internally threaded portion and a second portion; a recess having at least a partially conical cross-section and a second diameter at the second end, wherein a width of the conical cross-section of the corpus decreases toward the second end and a width of the conical cross-section of the recess increases toward the second end, wherein the second diameter is substantially equal to the first diameter at the second end to form a tapered cutting edge based on the conical cross-section of the recess and the conical cross-section of the corpus, the cutting edge to cut through a bone; a first set of openings intersecting the first internally threaded portion of the post accommodation; and a second set of openings intersecting the second portion of the post accommodation, at least a portion of the first set of openings and at least a portion of the second set of openings to engage the bone when at least a portion of the corpus is disposed in the bone.