Patent ID: 6053733
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
Dental implant that has an upper end with a generally cylindrical shape and straight generate, from which a prismatic portion or projection with a hexagonal shape protrudes outward, with this end being perforated axially with a blind internally screw-threaded hole, with an externally screw-threaded stem finished off at its apical end by a trunco-conical portion, also screw-threaded, in turn finished off by another cone shaped end, also provided with longitudinal slots that have cutting edges and procuring screw-threaded sectors between them which is characterised as follows:the height of the hexagonal projection is between 0.65 and 1.5 millimetres,the axial internally screw-threaded hole has a length from its exterior that does not exceed the lowest end of the straight upper cylindrical portion, with this length being between 3 and 5 millimetres,the height of the straight upper cylindrical portion is between 0.7 and 5 millimetres,the diameter of the screw-threaded cylindrical stem that starts from the above-mentioned cylindrical portion is between 2.5 and 6 millimetres,the conical end that finishes off the screw-threaded trunco-conical portion of the stern has an angle of approximately 120 degrees and is finished off by a flat chamfered surface of a generally circular shape, whose diameter is between 15 and 25% of the diameter of the screw-threaded portion of the stem,the longitudinal slots have, at the base of their cutting edges some portions which are outwardly curved concave rounded, from which there are other outwardly curved convex rounded portions that extend towards the cutting edges of the adjoining sector.