Patent ID: 9004919
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: A61C

Abstract:
1. A method of creating a proposed sulcus emergence profile for a dental implant surgical site, comprising the following steps, but not necessarily in the order shown below: (A) obtaining data of a specific patient's mouth needed to create a computer-generated virtual model of the specific patient's mouth; (B) processing said obtained data to create the computer-generated virtual model of the specific patient's mouth; (C) comparing virtual model data as it pertains to a site map of a proposed dental implant surgical site of the patient's mouth with other virtual model data as that pertains to a site map of the mirror location of the proposed dental implant surgical site, the mirror location being on the contra lateral side of the patient's mouth from the proposed dental implant surgical site, allowing the site map of the mirror location to be transposed and overlaid upon the site map of the proposed dental implant surgical site; (D) creating from that comparison of virtual model data, a proposed sulcus emergence profile for the proposed implant surgical site; (E) creating a concavity based on the proposed sulcus emergence profile; (F) using the concavity in a manufacture of a patient-specific healing abutment that will support the sulcus emergence as developed pursuant to the proposed sulcus emergence profile, the patient-specific healing abutment further lacking a chimney of a patient-specific final abutment.