Patent ID: 6276938
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
A method of executing a cemented superstructure wherein an implant is secured to a human jaw by means of a screw member threadably engaged with the implant, mounting a distance member over the implant, and passing the screw member through the distance member and into the implant, characterized in providing a set of distance members which are intended for different individual dental situations, providing each distance member with an internal counterholder, providing a majority of the distance members in the set with individually external different shapes so as to provide for individual anatomical shapes which are impressed on the cementing function and which are optimized for a number of main types of dental situations to minimize substantial modification work on the respective anatomical shapes in connection with the construction of the cemented superstructure in the jaw, selecting at least one distance member from the set for the mounting on the implant, mounting the distance member over the implant, inserting a tightening tool into the distance member, engaging the tightening tool with the counterholder and with the screw member, preventing torque from being transmitted from the tightening tool to the implant during the tightening of the screw member as a result of the engagement of the counterholder with the tightening tool, removing the tightening tool after the implant has been tightened, and applying a cemented superstructure around the distance member.