Patent ID: 8480395
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
1. A method of placing a dental implant having exterior threads, a divergent collar, and a flat tip, said method comprising the steps of: (a) drilling a pilot hole in the jaw bone of a patient; (b) drilling in said pilot hole with a final osteotomy drill to create a final osteotomy hole; (c) threading said dental implant into said final osteotomy hole until said dental implant reaches a predetermined seating depth when said flat tip contacts the bottom of said final osteotomy hole; (d) inhibiting movement of said dental implant at its final placement in the jaw bone by further threading said dental implant into said final osteotomy hole by additional rotation of said implant until said exterior threads further engage and pull up on bone around and underneath said flat tip; (e) thereby causing said dental implant to condense the bone at said flat tip of said dental implant by causing said external threads to pull up on the bone around said flat tip of said implant because downward movement of said dental implant is inhibited by said flat tip bottoming out in said final osteotomy hole.