Patent ID: 9554879
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61C

Claim:
1. A method of installing a final dental prosthesis in a patient's mouth including: taking a CT scan of the patient's mouth to generate data about the patient's jaw; analyzing the generated data from the CT scan; designing, on a computer, a final dental prosthesis utilizing the analyzed data; and fabricating the designed final dental prosthesis, wherein the final dental prosthesis to include a reinforced sub-structure; fabricating a cradle to conform to a region of the patient's jaw; forming an aperture in the cradle that is complementary to the sub-structure; installing one or more implants in the region of the patient's jaw; engaging the sub-structure in the aperture of the cradle; placing the cradle on the region of the patient's jaw; positioning and orienting the sub-structure and thereby the final dental prosthesis relative to the one or more implants using the cradle; engaging the sub-structure with the one or more implants; removing the cradle and engaged sub-structure from the implants and the region of the patient's jaw; disengaging the sub-structure from the cradle; positioning the final dental prosthesis on the region of the patient's jaw so that the sub-structure engages the one or more implants; and securing the sub-structure and thereby the final dental prosthesis to the one or more implants.