Patent ID: 7207800

Claim:
A dental implant assembly comprised of an integral dental implant, wherein said integral dental implant is comprised of an abutment head an implant body, and a neck section comprised of a ledge, wherein said ledge section is disposed between, and integrally joined with, said abutment head and said implant body wherein: (a) said abutment head is comprised of top section and a bottom section integrally joined to said top section, wherein: i. said top section has a shape formed by a linear wall adjacent to an arcuate wall, ii. said abutment head has a length of from about 2 to about 4 millimeters iii. said bottom section is integrally joined to said neck section; (b) said implant body is comprised of a top section and a bottom section, wherein said implant body extends upwardly and outwardly from said bottom section to said top section wherein said top section is integrally joined to said neck section; wherein: i. said implant body has a length of from about 3 to about 20 millimeters, and the surface of said implant body has an average irregular roughness of from about 10 to about 1,000 microns, ii. said neck section has a length of from about 0.1 to about 2 millimeters, and the surface of said neck section has an average roughness of from 0.1 to about 100 microns, iii. said length of said neck section is less than about 15 percent than said length of said implant body, and iv. said average irregular roughness of said implant body is at least about 10 times as great as said average roughness of said neck section.